LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Airliner Cloud of lona (1)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St.
Helier, Jersey.—31st July. The air liner Cloud of lona had been reported .overdue, and the motor life-boat Queen Victoria put out and searched all night without success. Shortly after noon...
Nation-Wide Effort Reduces Life-Boat Deficit
THE Chairman of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., told the annual meeting of the Institution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 25th March, 1969, that, following the serious deficit...
Category: Meetings
The Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 27th of October, 1948, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the...
Category: Meetings
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(Jfte figure! refer to the mcmten oftlix Life-lmtt detailed on the ten preceding Pages.) A, F. H., 131.
A Friend at Bradford, 63.
A. Lady, 16.
A Lady, 31.
A Lady,...
Category: Drawings
The Fundraisers
In Brief TO MARK his 50th birthday, Vincent Magrath of Tarn worth asked that instead of presents his fellow Rotarians and friends give their money to the RNLI. Chairman of Tamworth ladies' guild, Marion Appleby- Matthews, was invited to...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 12th October, 1905.
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...
Category: Committee
Ceremonies
Handing over of City of Edinburgh SUPPORT FOR THE Edinburgh lifeboat appeal has been forthcoming from every sector of the communities of both Edinburgh and Fraserburgh: commerce, industry, the professions, charitable trusts, worthy bodies,...
Category: Inaugurations
The Long Search
A FRAMED letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.s.o., has been addressed to each of the crew of the Lerwick, Shetlands, life-boat for the escort service they provided to three...
Category: Services
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1931
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition, was held this year for the eleventh time. As in the previous year, the Institution has pre- sented eight Challenge Shields and 280 individual awards, that is to say, a Challenge...
Category: Articles
Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The first four pages of the Report give an historical sketch of the Institution, and describe its object, composition and management, after which it continues as follows:— COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE INSTITUTION.
During the...
Category: Articles