LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News from the Branches. 1st January to 31st March
Greater London District.
ACTON.—Address to Chiswick Brotherhood and Sisterhood by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management.
CARSHALTON.—Drawing-room Meeting at Wallington, given by...
Category: Branches
Feature Come Fly With Me
The RNLI reached an important milestone in December when its first rescue hovercraft went on station at Morecambe on the north west coast. The Lifeboat takes an in-depth look at this exciting new addition to the fleet.'It's a lot...
Category: Articles
Coming Ashore
One of the four survivors of a steamer which was blown up on 15th November, 1939, and sank in a few minutes with her crew of thirteen. Nine were drowned. Four were picked up from the sea by another steamer, three of them badly injured, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1898
WE have much pleasure in drawing the special attention of our readers to the valuable statistics recently issued by the Board of Trade in their Annual Blue Book, which furnishes abstracts of the returns made to the Board of shipping...
Category: Articles
Patrick Mcloughlin Mp Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
Patrick McLoughlin wp, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (centre) with the RNLI's director Lt Cdr Brian Miles (left) and chief of operations Commodore George Cooper (right) in the operations room during his visit to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Left) the Future Yarmouth Isle of Wight Arun Lifeboat Hull Building at Halmatic Havant During a Visit In April (I to R) C G Dove Chief Designer Halmatic Showed the Ne
(Left) The future Yarmouth, Isle of Wight Arun lifeboat hull building at Halmatic, Havant. During a visit in April, (I. to r.) C. G. Dove, Chief Designer, Halmatic, showed the new boat to Major-General R. A. Pigot, president of the Isle of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Thanks for Help
Following the service by the Swanage life-boat, recorded elsewhere in this issue, the secretary of the Swanage branch received a letter of appreciation, the opening paragraphs of which are quoted below, together with a donation.
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Category: Correspondence
Saved for a Third Time
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat an account was given of services in which four different vessels had twice, within a short time, been helped by the same Life-boat.
Since then a vessel has been twice helped within four...
Category: Services
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Barometers for Life-Boat Stations
THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is about to place Barometers, wherever found practicable, at each of its life-boat stations round the coasts, in order that the seafaring population of the neighbourhood may be warned in time of a coming...
Category: Articles