LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Profiles
THE NAMES of famous lifeboatmen tend to stick to places along the coast. So, too, do the names of voluntary workers who over many years have left their mark on communities in the name of the lifeboat service. One of these is Mrs Kathleen...
Category: Articles
New Equipment—From the Boat Show
FROM THE BOAT SHOW • Very encouraging it was, at a Boat Show just managing to weather a fuel crisis, to find on display a means of generating power relying on neither oil nor coal. Lucas/C.A.V. Marine were showing a solar battery charger for...
Category: Articles
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Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
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Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscription*.
PATRONESS.
HEB MOST GRACIOUS Majesty THE...
Category: Advertisement
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1870
THE Board of Trade has recently published the Wreck Register of the United Kingdom for the past year. As usual, it is a most interesting document, convey- ing much useful information on a subject of national importance.
On...
Category: Annual Reports
Naming Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
DURING the summer the Naming Cere- monies were held for four new Motor Life-boats, the Manchester and, Salford, the Centenary gift of the Manchester and Salford Branch; the Milburn, the gift of the late Sir Charles Stamp Milburn and Mr....
Category: Inaugurations
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
WBXFOBD AND BOSSLAEE BBANCH. diocese The tm£ and c*stle were LXIH. WEXFOED No. 1.—The Ethel Eveleen, 40 feet by 10 feet 6 inches, 12 oars.
LXIV. Ditto No. 2.—The Civil Service No. 1,34 feet by...
Category: Articles
Cornish Correspondent By John Corin
Honorary secretaries of today's lifeboat stations who sometimes find themselves buried in paperwork will be interested to see how one of their predecessors of a century ago had to cope with the minutiae as well as the more important...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
POOLE.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a life-boat station at the port of Poole on the coast of Dorsetshire.
As there was no life-boat establishment between Lyme Regis on that coast and the Isle of Wight, and...
Category: Articles