LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Re-Opening of Shoreham Station
THE Station at Shoreham, Sussex, which was established in 1865, was closed in 1924, owing to the silting up of the harbour. Up to that date its Life-boats had rescued forty lives.
Since 1924 there has been a great im-...
Category: Articles
A Miniflare Being Fired at Night. the Payload Is, Incidentally, Falling While Burning: a Distress Pyrotechnic Does Not Ascend Burning.
A Miniflare being fired at night. The payload is, incidentally, falling while burning: a distress pyrotechnic does not ascend burning.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Waking Branch
Waking branch were very fortunate in having TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh (3rd r) as their very entertaining and interesting guest speaker at a wine and dine evening in March. The evening, which raised £1,000, was organised by Mrs Patsy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
District Conferences
THE annual Conference of Branches in the South-Eastern District was held in London, at the Westminster City Hall, on 1st March last. The Deputy- Mayor welcomed the delegates, and Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of- the Committee of...
Category: Meetings
New Ways of Raising Money
Miss J. McADAM of Monessie, Dalvreck, Crieff, has compiled instructions for a Montrose reel dedicated to the late Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, the Duke of Montrose. All royalties from the sale of the music and the instructions...
Category: Donations
Christmas Cards and Calendars
The Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproduction in colour of the painting on this page.
The original painting was by David Cobb, R.O.I., S.M.A., and shows the...
Category: Advertisement
An American Steamer Broken In Two
The Bessemer City on the Cornish rocks. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
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The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a roan heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides himself.
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