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Improved Rollers for Lifeboat Carriages and Skids

Date: October 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 78

Is No. 43 of this Journal we described and illustrated the portable " Roller Skids " on which life-boats are hauled out of the wafer prior to placing them on their carriages, and in the 59th number an improved self-lubri- cating...

Category: Articles

Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck

Date: October 1856

Volume: 02

Issue: 22

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.

PATRONESS—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

Category: Advertisement

Mrs E Horry

Date: Summer 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 485

August 1983 Mrs E. Horry, a president of Skegness ladies' guild since 1974 and chairman from 1961 to 1973; she had been a founder member of the guild in 1960 after serving for a number of years as a member of Skegness station branch...

Category: Obituaries

The S.S. Tolfaen

Date: February 1889

Volume: 14

Issue: 151

LLANDDULAS.—The s.s. Tolfaen, of Liverpool, bound from Liverpool forNewry with wheat, was seen at anchor in Ehos Bay, with a heavy list to port and flying a signal of distress during a strong gale from the N.N.W., and a very heavy sea on the...

The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage

Date: May 1880

Volume: 11

Issue: 116

The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.

Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...

Category: Articles

Above: the Aneroid Barometer That Featured In the August 1882

Date: Winter 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 551

Above: The aneroid barometer that featured in the August 1882 issue of The Life-Boat Journal. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck

Date: May 1875

Volume: 09

Issue: 96

For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

(Incorporated by Royal Charter,) FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

PATRONESS.

HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...

Category: Advertisement

The S.S. Virginia

Date: Winter 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 364

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 12.10 early on the morning of the 24th of De- cember, 1952, the Needles coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Virginia, of Panama, had run ashore one mile west of Atherfield but had not made any distress signals....

Holders of Lloyd's Medals

Date: July 1852

Volume: 01

Issue: 05

WE gladly embrace the earliest opportunity of redeeming the pledge, given in the June number of this Journal, that the services of Naval Officers, now living, the holders of Lloyd's Honorary Medals, should have a page to themselves. It...

Category: Articles

Arcadia and the S.S. Eastwood

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

JANUARY 9TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK, A N D S K E G N E S S L I N C O L N S H I R E .

Information was received at Wells from the coastguard at about 4.48 PM. that a tug was showing flares off Scolt Head. A strong northerly wind...