LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

EVER since the first pioneers settled in Canterbury, and sailing ships carried their cargo up the Heathcote River to Ferrymead, the ever-changing Sumner Bar has been notorious for its vicious moods and the number of lives and ships it has...

WITH THE TIME APPROACHING when the RNLI's 46ft 9in and 47ft Watson class housed lifeboats will reach the end of their station lives, preparations have been going ahead over the past few years for their replacement by a new fast slipway...

THE INGENIOUS NON-ELECTRIC ORIGINAL SWEEPS UP DIRT. PET HAIRS, THREADS. GRASS.

CRUMBS. ASHES. EVEN GLASS...WITH EASE! o ordinary sweeper can compete with the super-light Hok . The world's undisputed No. I floor cleaner....

Deeds of Covenant The sheet of paper which carries your address label for this issue of the journal has advice and guidelines for completing a deed of covenant.

If your address label has the code COV NA, you have already...

IN our Annual Report published in May last special attention was drawn to the fact that during the year 1890 the Committee had been compelled to spend as much as 33,354?. 13s. 10d in excess of their ordinary income, and that they had been...

The wreck of the German barque Hera in Gerrans Bay on the 1st February was unfor- tunately attended by the loss of nineteen lives. The vessel, which was a four- masted barque, of nearly 2,000 tons, was bound from Pisagua with a cargo of...

FROM ITS FOUNDATION in 1824, until the reign of George V, the Institution's medals were designed by officials of the Royal Mint. By courtesy of the Deputy Master, I am able to illustrate photographs of the original dies (Figs. 1 and 2),...

FALMOUTH. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a life-boat establishment at this port. Although the harbour of Falmouth is of a land-locked character, yet there are occasions when disasters occur in its immediate vicinity...