LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From the Shiplovers' Society of New South Wales
IN March Mr. N. V. Wade, the honorary treasurer of the Shiplovers' Society of New South Wales, wrote to the Institution to say that there were Shiplovers' Societies not only in London and Bristol, but in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide...
Category: Correspondence
Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935
IN 1935 the Institution received a gift of £3,000 from Mrs. E. W. Montford, J.P., of Market Drayton, Shropshire, who is patron of the Stoke-on-Trent Ladies' Life-boat Guild, to provide a motor life-boat as a thank-offering for the...
Category: Donations
Boydell's Patent Self-Laying Endless Railway
IN an article in this Number of our Journal, on Life-boat Carriages, we have explained the importance of providing as far as possible for the speedy transport of a life-boat along the shore; so that she might, on the occur- rence of a wreck,...
Category: Articles
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Dover, Kent.—On the 1st November, 1939, at the request of the chief of staff, Naval Base, the motor life-boat Sir William Hillary was launched at 1.50 P.M., but the services rendered have not been reported. The life-boat returned to her...
Maritime Book Society
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Category: Advertisement
Mr. G. S. Woodman, of Hythe
Mr. G. S. Woodman, of Hythe, who died on 1st June, at the age of forty-six, had been joint honorary secretary of the Hythe life-boat station for three years, and in that short time had made him- self of great value to the station, in which...
Category: Obituaries
Shoreline
ONE SUNDAY in July I had the great pleasure of meeting lifeboatmen from Blyth, the station on the north east coast of England for which the Rother lifeboat being funded by the Shoreline appeal is destined. Motor Mechanic Colin Cutherbertson,...
Category: Articles
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 7
AMONG the many busy years of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, 1887 and 1888 were the busiest so far as boat-building and altering existing Life-boats was concerned. In 1887, as will be seen on referring to page 244 of the August...
Category: Articles
Conference In South Wales
AT this conference delegates from fourteen branches and Ladies' Life- boat Guilds in Cardigan, Carmarthen, Glamorgan, Hereford, Monmouth, Pembroke and Radnor met at Cardiff on 29th May. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE.— In response to signals of distress from a vessel at anchor on the north-west side of the Hugo Bank, the Life- boat Charlie Medland was launched shortly after 3 P.M. on the 5th January.
They...
Category: Services