LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rnlike Crazy (Left) By Sally Wilson
Anyone who has recently completed a marathon or is training for one, possibly their first ever, will be grateful to Sally Wilson for putting the experience into words. The RNLI is receiving everincreasing support from sponsored marathon...
Category: Articles
Two Motor Life-Boats In the December Gales
THE gales at the end of December reached their worst on the 27th, on the which day ten launches took place round the coast, From the Isle of Wight it was reported that "the damage ashore was not so great as in November, but at sea condi...
Category: Services
An International Life-Boat Organization
By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.IT will be remembered that at the Inter- Comnational Life-boat Conference, held in London on 1st and 2nd July, 1924, in which representatives of nine nations took part, a resolution was...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BUDEHAVEN.—A new life-boat, on Mr PEAKE'S design, has been stationed at Budehaven on the north coast of Cornwall by the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. Her dimensions are, length 27 ft., beam...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE object of this Institution, as declared in its title, is to afford assistance to every Shipwrecked Person around the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The chief means by which it hopes to carry this object into effect are—...
Category: Advertisement
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, the 15th day of March, 1877, His Grace the DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L.,...
Category: Annual Reports
The Mariner's Compass
By Staff-Commander F. J. EVANS, R.N., F.R.S., Superintendent of Compasses to the Admiralty.
[IN the 47th Number of this Journal, when giving a drawing and a short description of the Fluid Compass supplied by this...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Small Ads
TIGHNABRUAICH, ARGYLL KAMES HOTEL is owned and run by a member of the TIGHNABRUAICH LIFEBOAT crew. Enjoy good food and comfort in wonderful surroundings. Families welcome. Watersports facilities. 3 Crowns commended.
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Category: Advertisement
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st March to the 30th June 1879
BROADSTAIRS.—On the 2nd March, in reply to signal guns from the Gull Light- ship the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat proceeded to the Goodwin Sands and found the three-masted schooner Ocean Queen, of Plymouth, ashore on the E. part of the...
Category: Services
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To THOMAS M. SINCLAIR, on his retirement, after serving for 24J years as coxswain of the Aberdeen life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.
To ROBERT YOUNG, on his retirement, after serving for 13J...
Category: Awards