LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
THE RNLI'S ACCOUNTS for 1975 are not complete at the time of going to press, hut it is certain that expenditure will have exceeded income. In other words there w i l l he a deficit which will have to he made good.
The...
Category: Articles
New Life-Boats
MABLETHORPE (LINCOLNSHIRE).—In a former number of the Life-boat Journal (217), it was mentioned that the boat at this station had been replaced by a new one of the Liverpool type, 36 ft.
long by 9 ft. wide, and that she was...
Category: Inaugurations
The S.S. lano
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 12.30 early on the morning of the 4th of November, 1957, the Foreland coast- guard telephoned that a steamer anchored in Sandown Bay appeared to be dragging. The life-boat crew were alerted, and half an hour...
Helping Pilots In Trouble
THE SOUTH EAST coast of England, as was the case during the war, still hears (and sometimes sees) military aircraft belonging to the R.A.F. and the U.S.A.F.
During this summer alone life-boats of the Institution have...
Category: Articles
Norwegian Dream and the Container Vessel Ever Decent (1)
Collision Aftermath The collision between the cruise liner Norwegian Dream and the container vessel Ever Decent off the coast of Kent in the early hours of Tuesday 24 August 1999 comes as a sharp reminder of how important it is to be...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 31st August, 1939.
Paid £31,992 16s. 6d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, including rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways...
Category: Committee
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
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th February, 1939.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Resolved that the St. Ives, Cornwall, station be temporarily closed.
Resolved that a joint meeting of the boat and...
Category: Committee
Scottish Lifeboat Council Annual General Meeting
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Scottish Lifeboat Council was held in The Freemason's Hall, Edinburgh, on May 23 this year. Captain Alexander Ramsay of Mar, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council, was in the chair at the...
Category: Meetings
Chairmanship of the Committee of Management
AT the April meeting of the Committee of Management a letter was received from Earl Waldegrave, P.C., intimating that in view of the fact that he no longer resides in London, and that his health is not quite as good as might be wished, he...
Category: Committee