LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Life-Boats
ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK. — It will be remembered by our readers that in a former number of the Life-boat Journal (207), we mentioned that the boat on this station had been replaced by a new Life-boat of the " Norfolk and Suffolk" type...
Category: Inaugurations
On the Connection Between the Recent Gales of Wind and the Reading of the Barometer
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations in the readings of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich which are delineated in the annexed diagram include a period of forty days, or from 27th October to 5th...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
The Long Tow
WHEN THE new Gorleston 44-foot steel life-boat Khami on 5th September, 1967» went to the aid of the m.v. Aureity, whose steering gear had broken down, no one knew then that the life-boat would end up by towing the auxiliary cutter...
Category: Services
Wheelbarrow Instead of Car.
The chairman of Rickmansworth and Croxley Green branch writes about her flag day: "We had beautiful weather. The sellers were all very keen. The result, £132, is more than last year. My wheelbarrow came in yery useful in delivering...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CROMER, NORFOLK.—On the 1st March a N.E. gale was blowing with squalls of hail and snow. At about 6.30 P.M.
signals of distress were seen from the barque Lodore, of Liverpool, which was at anchor about four miles off. The...
Category: Services
Loss of Life on the East Coast of Scotland
ANOTHER of those terrible visitations which have so frequently of late years befallen the fishing population on the east coast of Scotland, has again occurred, by which calamity no less than 44 men, mostly in the prime of life, have lost...
Category: Articles
The Rnli Looks at the Year's Work and the Future: 97000 Lives Saved Since 1824
THE ANNUAL MEETING of the RNLI this year was split into morning and afternoon sessions at the Royal Festival Hall, London, the first being for the governors and the second for the presentation of medals for gallantry and awards to voluntary...
Category: Meetings
Brian Jeffrey, a crew member at the Mumbles, shows a line-throwing rocket gun to members of the 2nd Swansea Valley (Clydach) Scouts, who, with a variety of events, raised £1,007 for the station. photograph by courtesy of the Western Mail.
Brian Jeffrey, a crew member at The Mumbles, shows a line-throwing rocket gun to members of the 2nd Swansea Valley (Clydach) Scouts, who, with a variety of events, raised £1,007 for the station. photograph by courtesy of the Western... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The following information is published as received: 'The Eastney, Hampshire, lifeboat —the last .tailing and pulling boat on station with the RNLI—photographed on return from a service
The fill/owing information is published as received: 'The Eastney, Hampshire, lifeboat —the last .tailing and pulling boat on station with the RNLI—photographed on return from a service in which it towed in the three Royal Nary inshore... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs