LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Service In Japan
THIS excellent Service, which is now in its fifteenth year as a chartered corporation, is making strenuous efforts to increase its sphere of usefulness and to extend the scope of its operations.
Although the Society ("...
Category: Articles
On the Northumberland Coast Station Barometers
BY JAMES GLAISHER, ESQ., F.R.S.
His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND proposed in 1859 to the President of the British Meteorological Society, THOMAS SOPWITH, Esq., M.A.,F.R.S., the establishment of Meteorological...
Category: Articles
Libby Purves Introduces All at Sea During the Launching of the Book By Fontana
Libby Purves, introduces All at Sea, during the launching of the book by Fontana and the RNLI at The Marine Society on March 5. With her are (r) the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the Institution, and (I) Ray Kipling, public relations officer,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
TAX CHANGES and the INSTITUTION's FUNDS
% One little publicised effect of the reversion, after six years, to a 7s. 9d. in the £ standard rate of income tax, proposed by the present Chancellor, is that upon the revenues of bodies such as the R.N.L.I.
On...
Category: Donations
The British and Foreign Sailors' Society
As our readers are aware, the subjects treated on in this journal have been exclusively those which are either directly, or indirectly, connected with the function of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION—the " Preservation of Life...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
FOR THE FIRST TIME the RNLI has awarded a gallantry medal for a rescue from an oil rig. The rig involved, Orion, was on tow from Rotterdam to Brazil when she went aground on the Guernsey coast. The rescue operation was in some respects of a...
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The Refrigerated Cargo Vessel Green Lily
Heroism and tragedy as ship goes ashore in 50ft breakerswith a 3,000-ton cargo vessel just yards off a rockstrewn coastline, and being driven inexorably ashore by breaking seas almost 50ft high, the crew of the Lerwick lifeboat had just one...
The Flamborough Motor Fishing Coble Pioneer (1)
NOVEMBER 12TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 5.30 at night it was reported that the Flamborough motor fishing coble Pioneer, which had been due back at three o’clock, had not returned.
A strong...
Marine Architecture at the Inventions Exhibition
THIS department of the Exhibition is, from the small number of exhibits dis- played in it, hardly calculated to advance the knowledge of the general observer, in the vast changes that have taken place in the form of both fighting and mer-...
Category: Articles
Andaman and Fortune (1)
Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 2.55 early on the morning of the 24th of May, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel Andaman.
of Gothenburg, had collided with the Panamanian steamer Fortune three...