LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL SHIPWRECK INSTITUTION, held at the Offices of the Society, John Street, Adelphi, on Tuesday, the 11th day of April, 1854,, CAPTAIN SHEPHERD, H.C.S., Deputy Master of the Trinity House, VICE...
Category: Annual Reports
Padstow's New Motor Life-Boat
Inaugural Ceremony by H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, K.G.
THE new Padstow Motor Life-boat was named on 21st July by H.E.H. the Duke of Gloucester, K.G., the name given to her being Princess Mary.
The new...
Category: Inaugurations
Life-Boat Crews on the Yorkshire Coast
FROM time immemorial it has been the custom of the Life-boat Service not to maintain fixed crews for Life-boats, but to draw volunteers as required from the seafaring population of the coast towns and villages where Life-boats are...
Category: Articles
Letters
Letter of the quarter Memorial arboretum goes ahead Following on from the appeal in the letters page of the winter issue of the Lifeboat, I am pteased to announce that we have reached our target of £5,000. We have secured a plot at the...
Category: Correspondence
Opening the New Life-Boat House at Cullercoats
FURTHER evidence of the popular ap- preciation of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION and all that appertains to the saving of life at sea was furnished on Saturday, 8th August last, at Culler- coats. About ten years since the Co-...
Category: Articles
Feature the Caister Life-Boat Disaster
Thankfully, lifeboat disasters are rare. Lifeboats are designed to withstand the very worst conditions and on occasions in recent years many crews have had cause to be grateful to the self-righting capability of modern lifeboats. The sea is...
Category: Articles
Six Life-Boat Men Drowned on Service
DURING the severe storms last December six Life-boat men lost their lives while on service. Five of them were members of the crew of the Life-boat at Rhos- colyn, in Anglesey, and the sixth be- longed to the Boat at Johnshaven, in...
Category: Services
Grace Darling's Coble. A Permanent Home at Bamburgh
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 90 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 104 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to 27th November, 1930 62,443 Grace Darling's Coble.
A...
Category: Articles
Launching and Recovery—Part I: Slipway Stations By Edward Wake- Walker Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
IN THE ACCOUNT of the service by Padstow lifeboat to the coaster Skopelos Sky which appeared in the summer edition of the journal, there was an unusual addendum. Unlike most reports that begin with words to the effect that 'the lifeboat...
Category: Articles
What South Australia Is Doing
ABILITY to aid the shipwrecked is a fairly accurate standard by which to measure a country's civilization. In the South Sea Islands, or Somali Laud, the un- fortunate castaway may struggle through the breakers, only to be clubbed on...
Category: Articles