LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
BUDEHAVEN, CORNWALL.—On the 31st of August, 1863, a large ship without masts, which afterwards proved to be the Conflict, an old sloop of war, of 2,000 tons, bound from Plymouth to Bristol, in ballast, to be broken up, was observed in tow of...
Category: Services
The Coronation
LIFE-BOAT HOUSE. LONDON, was decor- ated and illuminated in celebration of the Coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, Patrons of the Institution.
Sixty life-boat stations were supplied with sets...
Category: Articles
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1933.
£ s. d.
59 0 6 ••• • •• •••• ••• •• ••i B Construction, Repairs, Upkeep and Inspection of Life-boats and Life-...
Category: Accounts
A Life-Boat Cafe.
In May the Harrogate'Ladies" Life-boat Guild ran a life-boat cafe for a week.
An empty shop was got for nothing. A decorator decorated it free of cost. The electric and gas companies lent cookers. The corporation...
Category: Articles
Focus on Lytham-St. Anne's
IT is doubtful whether any other life-boat station in the British Isles could claim such a beginning. For the Lytham-St. Anne's station, in Lancashire, which is responsible for a conventional life-boat, an IRB, a tractor and two boarding...
Category: Articles
Our Inland Branches. Settle
DOES our reader know where Settle is, or the description of country that has to be traversed in making the journey to this part of England ? The question will pro- bably be answered in the negative, as it is a small market town of some 2000...
Category: Articles
The Safety Fishing-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, aircompartments, shifting-coamings, and hatches of one of the safety boats, 40 feet in length and 14 feet in breadth.
In figs. 1 and 2, the...
Category: Articles
The Winston Churchill
IN January, 1948, the latest life-boat provided by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, a 46-feet Watson cabin boat, went to Blyth in Northumberland.
She is one of eight Civil Service motor life-boats now in the fleet. Since...
Category: Inaugurations
In This Issue
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services 8 Rescues from around the country including Silver and Bronze Medal services Fit for the Job 14 Coswain Peter Barker tells how the work of Margate lifeboat attracts the...
Category: Contents
S.S. Royal Crown
JANUARY 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, AND SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. At 7.15 P.M. a message was received at Lowestoft from the coastguard that a boat belonging to the S.S. Royal Crown, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had come ashore eight miles south of Lowestoft, and...