LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search
8418 search results for 'Ada'
List view Card view

The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom

Date: November 1875

Volume: 09

Issue: 98

VOL—KINGSGATE.

The Thomas Chapman, 28 feet long, 6 feet beam, 6 oars.

THE next Life-boat Station westward from Mar- gate, of which we gave some account in the Life- boat Journal for the last quarter, is...

Category: Articles

Aberystwyth Lifeboats By Joan Davies

Date: Autumn 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 490

BACK IN THE TIME of the Romans the dip in the cliffs where the River Rheidol and the River Ystwyth come down to Cardigan Bay was already recognised as an important landing place, to be guarded with an encampment. At such a favourable strand,...

Category: Articles

"Saved at Last," A Tale of the Ramsgate Life-Boat

Date: January 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 71

CHAP, I.—LIFE-BOAT WEATHER AND LIFE- BOAT WORK 

Do we not often find, in the winter's even-ing, that our warm rooms seem more cosy, and the flames lap more brightly and closely round the half-consumed log, as a...

Category: Articles

The Armed Trawler Dungeness

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

NOVEMBER 15-25TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At 3.25 A.M. a message was received from the Haisboro’ coastguard that a trawler was ashore near the Haisboro’ Gap. A light southerly breeze was blowing and there was a heavy ground...

Fundraising

Date: Spring 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 564

Supporter recruitment manager, Sharon New, brings us the inside story on a new breed of RNLI street fundraisers and recruiters..

This summer you may come across some Lifeboats fundraisers that you have not seen before. They...

Category: Articles

Dublin Spring Sale By Joan Davies

Date: Spring 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 476

DROP A PEBBLE into the water, and who knows where the ripples will end? Fifteen years ago Mrs Montague Kavanagh suggested that the Dublin Lifeboat Committee should hold an annual sale of work as a major fundraising effort. In essence it was...

Category: Articles

Book Reviews

Date: Autumn 1975

Volume: 44

Issue: 454

• The Inflatable Boat Book by Kendall McDonald and Malcolm Todd (Pelham Books, £3.75) provides a useful instruction reference for all inflatable boat users and covers a wide field in the present production lines available on the...

Category: Articles

Your Letters

Date: Summer 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 537

Donations sewn up I was interested to read the letter in the Summer issue, 'Donations in lieu of reward.' This is a scheme I have operated for some time now, I have been involved with sewing machines most of my life and operated a...

Category: Correspondence

New Commercial

Date: April 1852

Volume: 01

Issue: 02

It was stated in our first Number that a part of the plan of this Journal would be to place on record deeds of gallantry in saving life from shipwreck, as an example and encouragement to others " to go and do likewise;" and perhaps...

New Inventions

Date: July 1855

Volume: 02

Issue: 17

WHILE this Institution is endeavouring to supply our coasts with ample means for saving life on occasions of accident at sea, and whilst our sister institution, " The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent...

Category: Articles