LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Silent Appeal
A NOVEL form of appeal was tried in Norwich this year. In place of a life-boat flag day, a silent appeal was made. There were no collectors.
Instead twenty-six large life-boat col- lecting boxes, hung on davits, were placed...
Category: Donations
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 14th January, 1915.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read the minutes of the Building,...
Category: Committee
Listings
Seahorse III at Cromer The naming ceremony for the new D class lifeboat was held outside the inshore boathouse despite overcast conditions and the forecast of heavy rain. The chairman introduced John Gamble, representing the sponsors of the...
Category: Articles
The Russian S.S. Smolensk
ANKLE SET ON PASSAGE Humber, Yorkshire. At 11.18 a.m.
on i9th August, 1965, a message from a doctor was received saying that a man on board the Russian S.S. Smolensk of Riga had broken a leg and required a...
Thomas Hardy
INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF COLLIER Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 11.25 on the morning of the 11th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man aboard the Grimsby trawler Yesso, which was then ten miles north...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 1st October, 1885.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence and "Wreck and...
Category: Committee
Pyrene Co. Ltd
THE PYRENE COMPANY LTD.
Just as ships in distress know they can depend on the men of Britain's life-boats, so in the emergency of fire the R.N.L.I, crews themselves know they can depend upon the sure and unfailing...
Category: Advertisement
A Speed Boat
Ramsgate, Kent.—28th July, 1939.
A'man who had put out in a speed-boat was reported as missing, but he had returned safely.-—Rewards, £10 11*..
A Small Boat (1)
— 9th November. Searched, without result, for a man in a small boat which had drifted away from a fishing smack.— Rewards, £14 Os. 6d..
A Steam Trawler
JANUARY 2 0TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. A steam trawler had gone ashore, but the crew had got ashore on a raft.
- Rewards, £24..