LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THIS excellent Service, which is now in its fifteenth year as a chartered corporation, is making strenuous efforts to increase its sphere of usefulness and to extend the scope of its operations.

Although the Society ("...

On the 10th Oct.

this boat, in conjunction with the Walmer boat, saved the Danish barque Louisa,, which had been driven ashore on the North Sand during a W.S.W. gale..

H.R.H. the Princess Elizabeth has sent the Institution £180. It is the balance of her wedding present from, Kimberley, in South Africa, and it came "with her good wishes and with those of the people of Kimberley.".

The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, was held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, the 17th day of March 1881. In the absence of His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O...

July Joe Adams, honorary life governor since 1993. Mr Adams served the Hastings lifeboat station from 1956 to 1993 in various capacities, including, honorary secretary, joint honorary secretary, deputy launching authority and chairman. He...

The Tamar hits the water during her slipway trials at Tenby's new boathouse and slipway. The old slipway and boathouse can be seen in the background Photo: Nigel Millard. - View image in PDF

awarded annually, is a decorated lifebelt given to the branch by HMS Stubbington earlier in the year.

A supper, organised by Brough and District ladies' guild, was held at Humber Yawl Club on January 26 with 90 people...

ON the night on 9th January signals of a vessel in distress were seen off Tor Ness at the south-west end of the island of Hoy in the Orkneys. She was found later to be the trawler Dorbie of Hull.

It was then ten minutes...