LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Gallant Service By Five Shetland Fishermen
AT the end of November, 1920, the American three-masted sailing ship Marion Chilcott sailed from Denmark for St. Thomas, West Indies. When she was a few days out she met with very thick weather and strong south-easterly gales. She was driven...
Category: Services
To the President, from the Gold Coast
SOME years ago reference was made in The Life-boat to letters which had been received from the Gold Coast, in one of which the writer, evidently under the impression that the Institution was a general stores, asked for its catalogues, and...
Category: Correspondence
Miss Alice Marshall, of Oxford
Miss ALICE SUSANNA MARSHALL died at Oxford on the 2nd of January, 1951, at over 90 years of age. She had been one of the most distinguished of the honor- ary secretaries of financial branches, and gave the Institution her enthusiastic and...
Category: Obituaries
Surf Motor Life-Boats. An Experimental Type
THIS year two motor life-boats of a new, experimental type have been com- pleted and stationed one at Wells, Norfolk, and the other at Ilfracombe, Devon. They are a surf type, and are 2J tons lighter than the light 35 feet 6 inches...
Category: Articles
The Sailing Barge Will Everard
VELLUMS FOR THE WALTON CREW Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 2.45 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1947, the Walton-on-the- Naze coastguard received information from the Felixstowe look-out that a barge was in distress near the...
Life-Boat Christmas Cards and Calendar
THE Institution is having for sale this year two Christmas Cards, one in colours, the other in black and white, and a pocket calendar.
The card in colour will have a reproduction of a painting by the late Mr. L. Wyllie, R.A...
Category: Advertisement
Maritime Book Society (Readers Union)
Take any 3books *mm*% PLUS CARRIAGE ONLY 2SP EACH THE . • SKUVIKKS , II INMMNi I -"ll* ' W(|'*'f and Save Up to £19 when you join the bi-monthly ra.
BOOK SOCIETY and make your choice from the best...
Category: Advertisement
Past and Present
100 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, May 1889 issue THE LIFE-BOAT HOUSE The boats of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under...
Category: Articles
Readers Union
J / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / Take any 3 books OHDf 25* EACH Edward Heath - SAILING and Save up tO €14.75 when you join the new bi-monthly D A/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / sports; weather forecasting, navigation...
Category: Advertisement
Municipal Life Assurance
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