LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hyannis Massachusetts to Rockland Maine By M G K Pennell
THE OPPORTUNITY to visit overseas lifeboat organisations is usually limited to the four-yearly International Lifeboat Conference; to be invited, and spon-' sored privately, to spend a week in the United States for what was to prove a...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Dog of Aldeburgh
All kinds of memorials have been erected to man but among the more unusual is this one portraying the life-size model of a dog. It can be seen on the front at Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast overlooking a children's model yacht pond. It... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra bouyanoy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GROOMSPORT, IRELAND.—A new life-boat has been stationed at Groomsport, County Down, by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and a branch of the Society established there. Lying at the entrance to the bay of Belfast, this station will afford a...
Category: Articles
Platform for This Photograph of the Liberian Tanker Ocean Liberty, Aground at the Mouth of the Tees In February, Was the Teesmouth Life-Boat
Platform For This Photograph of the Liberian Tanker Ocean Liberty Aground at The Mouth of the Tees In February Was The Teesmouth Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Record of the Branches
The 20 Branches with the Highest Collection.
WE publish below a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the Branch financial year ending 30th September,...
Category: Branches
A Detail from a Painting By Dr E. H. Sears of Minstead Lyndhurst Hants of the Last Moments of the Longhope Life-Boat Before the Seas Lifted Her Up So That She Was Found
A detail from a painting by Dr. E. H. Sears, of Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hants, of the last moments of the Longhope life-boat before the seas lifted her up so that she was found hours later upturned..
Category: Drawings
Drago, of Genoa
On the afternoon of the 20th March this coast was suddenly visited by a tremendous storm from the N.N.W., and shortly afterwards information arrived that a large vessel was in a most precarious position off Morte Stone, a dan- gerous reef...
Broadcast of a Launch at New Brighton
ON 2nd January a broadcast of a launch of the motor life-boat at New Brighton, was given in the North Regional programme. The firing of the maroons, the orders of the cox- swain and the sounds of the life-boat leaving New Brighton stage were...
Category: Articles
Mr. John Lewis, of Holyhead
Mr. John Lewis, of Holyhead, died on 10th March, at the age of sixty-four, only two months after he had been compelled to retire from the honorary secretaryship of the Holyhead life-boat station on account of ill-health. He had held that...
Category: Obituaries