LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Seamen and Their Employers
MANY of our readers will have learned by the newspapers that for some time past discontent has existed amongst our merchant seamen, chiefly on the ground of their being liable to imprisonment for re- fusing, after signing articles, to...
Category: Articles
Bathing Accidents and Safety Bathing Dresses
WE have frequently called attention to the melancholy and often preventible loss of life which summer after summer takes place from accidents to bathers on the shores and inland waters of the United Kingdom.
It might...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meetings 1982
The 168th Annual General Meeting of the RNLI was held in what has become its traditional venue - the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank - on the morning of Tuesday 19 May, 1992. The weather, however, was far from the traditional...
Category: Meetings
Your Letters
Face in the cliffs Reading the Spring 1998 issue of The Lifeboat. I noticed the photograph of Valentia's Severn class lifeboat. Yet I wonder if any other readers noticed that just above the bow of the lifeboat, in the edge of the rugged...
Category: Correspondence
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 1st January, 1863. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
An Aeroplane (29)
AUGUST 16TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. An aeroplane, believed to be German, had crashed during an air-raid on Portsmouth, but only oil was found. - Rewards, £13 12s..
An Aeroplane (95)
AUGUST 15TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had reported what appeared to be an upturned dinghy, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £12 3s..
(Above) Criccieth Reopened In 1953: Dedication and First Launch of the 35Ft 6In Liverpool Richard Silver Oliver a D Class Ilb Has Been Stationed at Criccieth Since 196
(Above) Criccieth, reopened in 1953: Dedication and first launch of the 35ft 6in Liverpool Richard Silver Oliver. - View image in PDF
A D class ILB has been stationed at Criccieth since 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Regular Customers of the Brewery Shades Pub Crawley Raised £89 By Dropping Coins and Notes Behind a Glass Screen In the Bar a Competition to Guess How Much
Regular customers of the Brewery Shades pub, Crawley, raised £89 by dropping coins and notes behind a glass screen in the bar.
A competition to guess how much was behind the screen was won by Rufus, a dog.
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Category: Photographs
(Right) Lifeboats from the Relief Fleet Visit a Large Number of Stations and Are Often Involved In Services Which Earn Awards
(right) Lifeboats from the Relief Fleet visit a large number of stations and are often involved in services which earn awards for the lifeboat crews. The Arun class Margaret Russell Fraser was at Yarmouth on relief duty when coxswain Dave... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs