LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
George, of Lowestoft
At daybreak on the morning of the 12th December a brig was observed on her broadside off this station, with her crew of 6 men in their boat, a short distance from the vessel. There was a heavy surf breaking on the shore at the time, and,...
New Ways of Raising Money
Harrow County School, Middlesex, in April got sponsors for ''bar billiards'.
Five boys played billiards continually for 72 hours, thereby breaking the world record for this type of event. At the time it was...
Category: Donations
How Can I Help the Institution? A Note for Keen Honorary Secretaries and Workers
II* PLACE AUX DAMES As I pointed out in my first article, no Branch will be really effective—though it may, perchance, be technically effi- cient as a Station—nor will it exercise the far-reaching influence which should belong to it unless...
Category: Articles
Queen Victoria, of Lyne
Signals of distress were observed about half-past eight o'clock on the 10th November, from this Life-boat station, and the Manchester Unity was promptly launched to the assist- ance of the distressed vessel. It turned out that the...
Foam, of Dun Laoghaire
AUGUST 12TH. - WICKLOW. About 6.45 in the morning, when the life-boat crew were standing by half an hour after bringing in the yacht Sea Gull, another yacht, the Foam, of Dun Laoghaire, was seen apparently in difficulties in the outer...
Queen of Kent
Ramsgate, Kent.—During the night of the 1st August, 1938, the pleasure steamer Queen of Kent, of Rochester, returning to Ramsgate Harbour from a trip, with 347 persons on board, ran aground on the Brake Sands. A gentle N.E. breeze was...
New Officers of the Scarborough Life-Boat
Second Coxswain William Sheader, Coxswain Tom Mainprize and Bowman Thomas Rowley (see page 10). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Branches of the National Life-Boat Institution
To view click 'View original layout'
Category: Branches