LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
100 Years Ago. Two Gold Medal Services on the Same Day
THE brig Aurora, coal laden, was wrecked near the mouth of the Tees, on the night of the 14th August, 1829, in a heavy gale and tremendous sea ; and the crew, consisting of ten persons, were saved by the intrepid conduct of Lieutenant Pym, R...
Category: Medals
Centenary of the Institution, 1924. Appeal to Honorary Secretaries
Tim Secretary of the Institution pro- poses, if possible, to compile its history for publication in 1924, and he will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may be good...
Category: Articles
£207 By Photography
ADMIRAL STUART NICHOLSON, C.B., M.V.O., D.L., who has been Honorary Secretary of the Bude Branch since 1921, and was presented last year with the Gold Badge, has contributed £207 to the funds of the Branch by photography, principally by...
Category: Donations
Life-Boat Christmas Cards and Calendars
LIFE-BOAT CHRISTMAS CARDS AND CALENDARS FOUR attractive and interesting life-boat Christmas cards are available this year.
A.—A card bearing an illustration reproduced from a painting by Stewart Henry Bell, hanging at Head...
Category: Advertisement
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproducti on in colour of the picture on this page.
It is a photograph of the 41-feet Newhaven life-boat Cecil and Lillian...
Category: Advertisement
Imbibing on the Sands
"A party of trustees, with their wives and daughters, agree to meet at some commodious hotel in the vicinity of a life-boat station, the day is fine, and the party are perhaps themselves rowed out a couple of miles—a daring deed, which...
Category: Articles
Adex Rumaton
Discover the double benefits of A combination of magnets and copper - Twice the power - twice the benefit Now... for the very first time, Ceba of London brings you the exclusive Rumaton combined copper and magnetic...
Category: Advertisement
S.S. Empire Clansman, of Grangemouth
JANUARY 19TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
At 12.3 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a large vessel was ashore about one mile south of South Carr.
A north-west gale was blowing, with a very rough...
Life-Boat Song
SING Ho! ho 1 ho! how the wild winds blow, And the breakers in fury foam, While, with thund'ring roar, o'er the storm-swept shore, The waves in their frenzy roam! Oh, many a ship, in the storm-fiend's grip, Would add to the...
Category: Songs
Herring Boats
On the morning of the 30th June a strong N.E. gale sprang up causing a very heavy sea whilst the herring fleet were returning from the fishing grounds.
Owing to the heavy swell and surf at the Harbour entrances it was...