LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Edward Wake-Walker, the RNLI's Public Relations Officer, visited the United States to look at...

Charities - the American Way The PRO'S visit to the USA was a Churchill Travelling Fellowship, and the entire costs of...

THURSDAY, 9th Juno, 1904.

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Head and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Building, Finance and...

During 1940 the Institution's life-boats were launched r,o8t times. That is 396 more launches than ever before in one year.

They rescued 2.056 lives. That is 858 more lives rescued than ever before in one year.

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the afternoon of the 29th July the Sizewell coastguard reported that a cabincruiser, which was being towed by a yawl, had broken adrift half a mile N.E. of the coastguard station, and that it was not certain if anyone...

Our summer break at Littlehampton was a little longer than anticipated perhaps due to a reluctance to depart before there was some progress to report on the new boathouse project. It is now some two years since discussions started on the...

A new boat on the coastA new lifeboat will enter the RNLI's fleet of lifeboats in 2003. The untrained eye may not be able to spot any difference between the new boat and the one it will replace, but the changes that have been made will...

THREE new Motor Life-boats which left the building yard at Cowes for their Stations during the gales—the 40-feet Watson Life-boats for Port Patrick (Wigtownshire), Troon (Ayrshire) and Moelfre (Anglesey)—were subjected to as severe a test as...

THURSDAY, 1st June, 1882.

THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chair- man of the Institution, in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and...