LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Madeleine
At half-past four on the morning of Sunday, the 23rd October, a coastguardman, on the look-out near the quiet little seaside town of Clacton, saw a signal rocket fired from, the Gunfleet Floating Lightship, which told of a wreck on the...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
BROUGHTY FERRY, DUNDEE. — On the 24th October, 1868, the barque Betty and Louise, of Hamburg, was stranded during a strong gale on the Cruivie Bank, near Buddon Ness. The Mary Hartley life- boat was quickly manned and launched, and succeeded...
Category: Services
Annual Report. 1911
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Thursday, the 16th day of March, 1911, The Eight Honourable the EARL OF DERBY, G.C.V.O., G.B., in the...
Category: Annual Reports
Naming Ceremonies
TENBY H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent. Presi- dent of the Institution, named the new Tenby life-boat Henri) Comber Brown at Tenby on the 2nd of June, 1956, and later went afloat in the life-boat. The life-boat has been built out of legacies from...
Category: Inaugurations
An Aeroplane (26)
MARCH 1ST. - BUCKIE, AND WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE. A German aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the crew got ashore by rubber dinghy in the darkness, unseen by the life-boats. - Rewards : Buckie, £11 14s. ; Whitehills, £15...
News from the Branches
1st January Greater London.
CHELSEA.—Address to the Rotary Club by the District Organizing Secre- tary.
CHINGFORD (ESSEX).—Bridge and Whist Drive. Address by the Assistant District Organizing Secretary.<...
Category: Branches
In Memoriam. Admiral John Ross Ward
BY the death, which took place on the- 23rd June last, of the late Admiral WARD „ in his 77th year, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION has lost a good friend and a devoted officer. From the time he joined the Committee in February 1852...
Category: Obituaries
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PADSTOW.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently sent a large Life- boat to Padstow, on the north coast of Cornwall, to take the place of a smaller one forwarded there some years since.
The new boat is 34 feet long...
Category: Articles
Evett Sailwear Ltd
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TIMBER HALL WORKS THE SQUARE CATERHAM, SURREY, CR3 6QA Tel:...
Category: Advertisement
The New Life-Boat on Trials
The new 44-foot steel life-boat of U.S. Coast Guard design seen at Bideford during her summer trials. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs