LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
All In a Good Cause By Pat Dewhurst
Pat Dewhurst, honorary secretary of Penwortham fund raising branch was asked to give this account of what lies behind the £4,OOU they bring in for the RNLI each year at a recent regional conference Readers who spend time on similar...
Category: Donations
Focus on . . . . Sunderland
THE oldest existing life-boat station in England lies half-hidden behind a scrap metal yard on the Sunderland docks. The road to the life-boathouse twists and bends between low-lying warehouses and shipyard buildings towards the river Wear,...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
LOWESTOFT.—On the night of the 2nd November, 1861, the schooner Fly, of Whitby, was in a leaky state, and in danger of foundering near Lowestoft, in a heavy gale from the north. On her making signals of distress, the life-boat of the...
Category: Services
Admiralty Register of Wrecks for the Years 1850-51
SUCH is the title of an interesting blue-book recently presented to Parliament by the Harbour Department of the Admiralty.
The register is necessarily dry and bald.
From the number of columns (22)...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Quiz Answers (From Page 18)
Lifeboat quiz answers (from page 18) 1—(a) Aith, Shetlands;(b) Lowestoft, Suffolk; (c) St Helier, Jersey; and (d) Valentia, Co. Kerry.
2—The first lifeboat designed to work under sail was the Frances Ann, built at Lowestoft...
Category: Articles
Dedication: Offshore—Inshore
MOELFRE, JUNE 17 and BROUGHTY FERRY, JULY 17 BRILLIANT SUNSHINE and a fresh northerly wind building up white horses out at sea gave a sparkling day for the handing over ceremony and dedication of Moelfre's new 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat,...
Category: Inaugurations
People and Places
Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting, the Committee of Management has awarded 3 Honorary Life Governorships, 10 Bar to Gold Badges and 55 Gold Badges. Each of the following entries states the dates of the first and latest...
Category: Articles
Treatment of the Apparently Drowned
'HE Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have recently extensively circulated the following Queries on lie subject of the Treatment of Apparently Drowned Persons.
As it is thought the cause of science...
Category: Articles
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Oliver, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., M.V.O., LL.D.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Oliver, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., M.V.O., LL.D., died in his loist year on i5th October, 1965. He was, in the words of The Times obituary, "one of the outstanding seamen of his time". A man of few words and...
Category: Obituaries
Letters
Medal rescue recalled With reference to an article in your Winter 1986/87 journal The RNLl in Ireland you may be interested in a conversation I have recently had with my husband's 104-year-old grandfather.
When he was...
Category: Correspondence