LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
List of the Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution During the Storms of January Last
NEW BRIGHTON.—On the 4th January, 1881, at 3.45 A.M., in reply to signals of distress, the Life-boat Willie and Arthur proceeded to the Asque Spit and found the s.s. Brazilian, of Barrow, ashore there.
After the boat's...
Category: Services
First Launch for the Four Boys
At 1030 on 28 November 1991, Sennen Cove's new Mersey class lifeboat The Four Boys, the first Mersey to be allocated to a slipway station, sped down the slipway on its first launch at its new home.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Island Aruns: Naming Ceremonies at Port St.Mary Isle of Man July 21 and Yarmouth Isle of Wight July 24
A LIFEBOAT NAMING CEREMONY is always a happy occasion for a station, its supporters, and, indeed, the whole local community, but that at Port St Mary, Isle of Man, had a particularly pleasurable aspect. For while the RNLI has many lifeboats...
Category: Inaugurations
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 13th October, 1898.
Sir EDWARD BIBKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1883
RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING FOE 1883.
His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., IN the CHAIR.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :—1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the...
Category: Meetings
The Late George Lennox Watson, Consulting Naval Architect to the Institution 1887-1904
IT is fifty years this year since George Lennox Watson, the yacht designer, of Glasgow, was appointed consulting naval architect to the Institution.
Looking back over these fifty years, one can say that Mr. Watson's...
Category: Articles
20 Medals for Cromer & Gorleston.
The famous life-boat stations at Cromer and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston have won for two services in August and October 20 medals, 25 vellums and £234 in money awards. The first service was to six steamers wrecked close together on the...
Category: Articles
Great Rail Journeys
GREAT RAIL JOURNEYS 2007 Departure Dates and Prices First Class Rail Travel 9 Apr £1,150 23, 30 Apr £1,250 7,21,28 May £1,250 4,11,18,25Jun £1,250 2,9, 23, 30 Jul £1,250 6,13 Aug £1,150 20, 27 Aug £1,250...
Category: Advertisement
Bronze Medals for Two Scottish Coxswains. St. Andrews, Fifeshire and Thurso, Caithness-Shire
St. Andrews, Fifeshire, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.
Two gallant services were carried out by Life-boats in Scotland during March., one by the Pulling and Sailing Life- boat at St. Andrews, Fifeshire, and the other by the...
Category: Medals
Listings
Lifeboat and hovercraft launches remainder of July–September 2006 Listings ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Sep 25 ON-1262(17-33):Jul 17, 31, Aug 18, 26 D-500:Jul 26,31,Aug 26,Sep 25 D-536:Jul 17 ABERDOVEY B-758:Jul 19(x2),23,29,30, Aug...
Category: Articles