LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
How Can I Help the Institution? A Note for Keen Honorary Secretaries and Workers
By GEORGE F. SHEE, Secretary of the Institution.
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IN the course of many years' experience of the organization of efforts on behalf of the Life-boat Cause I have met again and again Honorary...
Category: Articles
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Presentation of Vellums Signed by the Prince of Wales.
TEN Centenary Vellums were pre- sented to Stations during the year 1931, and two more presentations were made in 1930 in addition to the ten previously reported in...
Category: Articles
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Fowey (Cornwall), Weymouth (Dorset), Thurso (Caithness), and Stornoway (Island of Lewis) DURING September four new Motor Life-boats were formally inaugurated, those at Fowey, Weymouth, Thurso and Stornoway. Thus, with the South- end-on-Sea...
Category: Inaugurations
Life-Saving Apparatus at Sea
The following is the text of the report of the committee appointed by the Board of Trade to consider the question of boats, rafts, and life-saving apparatus carried by sea-going merchant ships: — " Liverpool, 25 October,...
Category: Articles
Signals of Distress
SIGNALS OF DISTRESS.
THE terrible loss of the Nbrthfleet, and of nearly 400 human beings, who had en- trusted themselves to her safe keeping, has strikingly indicated the need, which had often previously been felt, of some...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
STAITHES.—A sudden gale of wind from E.S.E. arose on the morning of the 14th March, 1896, and a heavy sea sprung up, endangering the safety of the fishing- cobles, which had proceeded to sea at daybreak. The Life-boat Jonathan Stott put off...
Category: Services
Non-Members of the Yla Are Liable to Capsize at Sea So Are Members of the Yla But at Least When They Go Over Yla Members Have the Consolation of Knowing They
Non-members of the YLA are liable to capsize at sea. So are members of the YLA. But at least, when they go over, YLA members have the consolation of knowing they can await rescue by the R.N.L.I, with a clear... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Strength and depth
In the English Channel, there are breaking swells higher than houses. Shrieking winds whip up a storm of snow, sleet and spray. Amidst it all, a huge cargo ship named Bonita, with 36 people onboard, has rolled onto her side....
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 1st June, 1882.
THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chair- man of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and...
Category: Committee
Main Picture: the Griffon 450TD
Main picture: the Griffon 450TD hovercraft is put through her paces at Hunstanton as part of the coastal trials. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs