LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Forty Years of Motor Life-Boats
IT was .in 1904 that, as an experiment, the first petrol engine was fitted in a pulling and sailing life-boat. It was an engine of 10 horse power. Two years later three other sailing life-boats were fitted with larger engines. The experiment...
Category: Articles
Danger of Climbing the Mast of An Open Boat
N the 10th number of this Journal, we remarked on a boat accident, attended with loss of life, which had then recently occurred, through a person climbing the mast of a small boat, and we strongly urged the rash- ness and danger of such a...
Category: Articles
Lymington's Atlantic 21
Lymington's Atlantic 21 was called out to the rescue of five Sea Scouts and two Scout Leaders when their canoes got into difficulties in very rough conditions on the Solent on 22 August 1992. Although photographs from the air always... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Reviews
Mr. Angus MacVicar has produced a work which many people associated with the life-boat service must long have wanted to find, a gripping novel written for the young on the work of a life-boat station. This is Life-boat— Green to White...
Category: Articles
Little Treasures!
After raiding their toy cupboards and wardrobes Amy Bromilow, left, aged eight, and her sister Rebecca, aged ten, held a jumble sale outside their home in Stoneclough, raising £80.63 for Farnworth and Kearsley branch of which their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Loss of Memory
THE following story comes from the North of England. Two gentlemen were so convinced that each was accurate in a certain statement that they had a small wager on the result.
Naturally one lost, and our Organising Secretary...
Category: Donations
District Conferences. Greater London
Greater London.
THE Annual Conference of Branches in Greater London was held on 9th October, at the City Hall, Westminster. Dele- gates were present from twenty-one Branches and nine Ladies' Life-boat Guilds, and were...
Category: Meetings
Star
The schooner Star, of St. Agnes, in attempting to come into Hayle, during a strong wind from the N.E. and a heavy sea, on, the 8th December, struck and grounded west of the bar. The Life-boat Isis quickly proceeded to her, and took off her...
A Fishing Boat (20)
NOVEMBER 17TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. A fishing boat had been reported missing, but she had sunk and her crew had landed on a small island. - Rewards, £10 11s..
The "Dunleary" (Civil Service No. 6). Presented By the Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
A Non-self-righting Motor Life-boat of the Watson type (45 ft by 12 ft. 6 in.}. Fitted with a Tylor engine developing 60 B.H.P.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs