LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 8th May, 1902.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Notes of the Quarter
In his report on the past year's work at the Annual General Meeting of the Institution, which is given on page 70, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham- Quin, R.N., the Chairman, described the past year as one of outstanding success in the...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE DUKE OF ATHOM-, chairman of the Institution, reported to the annual general meeting of governors on Tuesday morning. May 17, that during 1982 lifeboats launched 3.304 times, the highest number since the foundation of the RNLI, and saved...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE loss of the whole crew of the Longhope life-boat made a deep impact on the nation as a whole. It evoked feelings not only of sympathy and grief but also of generosity and a widespread determination to express sympathy in a practical form...
Category: Articles
A Record Year
THE year 1936 was for the life-boat service the busiest in its whole history of 113 years. Life-boats were launched 468 times to the help of vessels in distress. That is an average of nine launches a week. Never before have there been so...
Category: Annual Reports
Notes of the Quarter
THE first number of THE LIFE-BOAT appeared in March, 1852. The first editorial began: 'If there be one subject more than another that might be expected to com- mand the attention and enlist the sympathy of a maritime country like Great...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th October, 1876: THOMAS CHAPMAN Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
September Meeting.
Galway Bay, Co. Galway. — The motor life-boat William Evans was launched at 11 A.M. on the...
Category: Services
Some Ways of Raising Money
Mr John Skellorn, of the Gravesend Sailing Club, gives a tip about raising money by paperboat racing.
He writes: 'As far as we know, only Belfleet yacht club and ourselves have organised paperboat racing. It started...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (1)
Fowey, Cornwall.—17th April, 1938.
An aeroplane had been reported to have come down in the sea, but nothing could be found, and it was presumed that a machine ftying very low had given rise to the report.—Rewards, £4...