LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Admiralty Register of Wrecks for 1854
THE Admiralty Register of the Wrecks that have occurred on the coasts of the United Kingdom during the year 1854 has just been published by order of the House of Commons, accompanied by the Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the same...
Category: Articles
Your Shout
your shout Dear Editor i’ve always enjoyed reading the Lifeboat. this time i read it over breakfast when the washing machine – a noisy one – was on. the new eye-catching arrangement held me riveted until fi nally the silence drew my...
Category: Correspondence
Our Inland Branches. Bradford. Derivation—Brae, a Hill, and Ford
UNTIL the beginning of the present century Bradford may be described as a place of no importance, though supplied by nature with every requisite to make it what it has now become, a town of the first magnitude. It is situated in the West...
Category: Articles
(Left) Flashback to 1986 When Lifeboats from Ramsgate Margate and Sheerness Took Part In An Evacuation Exercise With a Cross-Channel Ferry
(Left) Flashback To 1986 When Lifeboats From Ramsgate Margate and Sheerness Took Part In An Evacuation Exercise With A Cross-Channel Ferry. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Norwich Union
The Plan enables you to take out a loan secured on your property. The loan becomes payable when the borrower/surviving borrower dies or needs to go into long term care. CHECK THATTHIS MORTGAGE WILL MEET YOUR NEEDS IF YOU WANT TO MOVE OR SELL...
Category: Advertisement
Focus on . . . St. Abbs
St. Abbs life-boat station still holds the record for the longest service by one of the Institution's life-boats. This was achieved by the previous life-boat W. Ross Macanhur of Glasgow when she stood by the Swiss cargo ship Nyon for 11...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1894
THE pressure of work thrown on the Board of Trade last year was so great that the Department was unable to issue until the close of the year their very valuable "Abstracts of the Shipping Casualties which occurred on or near the Coasts...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
WHAT is that sound that cracks the air, that rip in the quivering night ? What is that flash in the scurrying clouds, that shiver of living light ? What is that clatter of hurrying feet, and why do the women run Unkempt, bareheaded, and...
Category: Poetry
New Inventions
THE FAREHAM LIFE-BOAT.—A novel description of life-boat, to which the above appellation is given by its designer, has been recently patented.
It is the invention of the Rev. E. L. BERTHON, M.A., of Fareham, and is...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Management.
Thursday, 18th December, 1924.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Decided to close the following Stations : — Gorleston, No. 2.
Winterton, Nos. 1 and...
Category: Committee