LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Your Letters
Model register Thank you for printing my letter in the Summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT under the heading of Model Register.
The response to my letter has meant that we now have sufficient numbers to form a group of lifeboat...
Category: Correspondence
Notes of the Quarter
Maritime England A YEAR-LONG celebration of the sea is planned for Maritime England 1982 by the English Tourist Board. There may be as many as 2,000 special events put on in different parts of the country for the pleasure of visitors from...
Category: Articles
Island Maid and Angele
On the after- noon of 12th November, two vessels, the schooner Island Maid, of Belfast, and the brigantine Angele, of Brest, while endeavouring to enter Padstow Harbour, in a strong "W.N.W. gale accompanied by a heavy sea, struck on the...
Tubular Life-Boat
UNDER the above designation, a " life-boat," or what would be more correctly termed a life-raft, has been constructed by two public- spirited gentlemen, the Messrs. RICHARDSON, of Aber Hirnant, Bala, North Wales, and navigated from...
Category: Articles
A New Civil Service Life-Boat
A NEW motor life-boat, the gift of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, has been completed this year and stationed at Walmer, Kent. There are now six motor life-boats on the coast built out of the Fund—three on the English coast, at Walmer and...
Category: Inaugurations
Life-Boat Conferences
North Eastern and Irish Free State Districts.
A CONFERENCE of Honorary Workers in the North Eastern District was held at Bridlington on 18th September last. Representatives from thirty-six Branches and Guilds were present...
Category: Meetings
Annual Meeting
The eighty-eighth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Whitehall Rooms on Thursday, March 14th, 1912. His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., presided, and amongst those present were: — The...
Category: Meetings
Life-Boat Conferences
South Eastern District.
CONFERENCES of Life-boat Workers in the South Eastern District were held at St. Leonards-on-Sea (for Branches in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Kent.
Surrey and Sussex) on 4th and 5th...
Category: Meetings
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1934
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools has been held this year for the fourteenth time. The number of schools taking part was 2,501, an in- crease on last year of 294.
Of this...
Category: Articles
Management of Boats In a Surf and Broken Water
To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.
SIR,—I HAVE read with considerable interest your Article in the Life-Boat Journal, on the management of boats in a surf and broken water, and must beg to offer some remarks upon it;...
Category: Correspondence