LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ARDROSSAN. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sent to Ar- drossan, on the west coast of Scotland, a new and larger boat, fitted with two drop keels, in the place of the one stationed there a few years since. The new boat is 37...
Category: Articles
Pandema, of Plymouth, and Besty, of Brixham
On the night of 18th March the brigantine Pandema, of Ply- mouth, bound from Cardiff to London with railway iron, struck on the Doomedbar Sands off Padstow during a strong northerly gale and heavy sea. The life-boat at Padstow was at once...
Salmi
On the 5th December, the weather being thick, and a strong wind from W.S.W. blowing, a barque was observed in the bay, apparently making for the land. As soon as her dangerous po- sition was seen, the Agar Bobartes life-boat put off, through...
Two Boats
Launch team praised THE STORMS which battered the south east coast of England last autumn left Eastbourne lifeboat station behind a three foot high sandbank, 30ft in length.
At 1913 on November 1, 1987, Coxswain Graham Cole...
"Woods of Which a Life-Boat Is Made": A Correction
IN this article, which appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat, it was stated that greenheart, a very hard wood of which a little is used in building life- boats, was an African wood. This was not correct. It comes from...
Category: Articles
Another £600 from South Africa.
Another £600 has been received from South Africa in response to Miss Pattie Price's appeal. £5°o of it comes from the Navy League War Fund of South Africa and £164 from people of Johannesburg. The total is now £2...
Category: Articles
Cornish Appeal
Cornish Appeal (from page 55) over to local branches at the end of the appeal. Careful instructions should be given about emptying boxes every three months in order to reduce loss by theft.
'A midnight matinee is well...
Category: Articles
Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...
Category: Advertisement
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CAHORE, Co. WEXFORD.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently for- warded to the coast of Wexford a new Life-boat, which has been stationed at Cahore, in the place of the former Boat. It is 34 feet long, 8 feet wide, rows 10 oars...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Prospects In the Baltic
IN the July Number of the Life-Boat Journal for 1852, will be found a brief account of the Foreign Life-boat Stations on the coasts of France, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark; we are gratified to learn from a recent traveller, that there is a...
Category: Correspondence