LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE DUKE OF KENT, President of the Institution, visited the RNLI headquarters and depot at Poole on Tuesday morning, October 7, attended by his Private Secretary, Lt-Cdr Richard Buckley, and accompanied by HM Lieutenant for Dorset, Col Sir...

Lifeboats in the South Seas - in TongaJust before Christmas, Swanage lifeboat station received news of their old lifeboat, Thomas Markby, which served at the station from 1928 to 1949.

The letter came from the Kingdom of...

Model register Thank you for printing my letter in the Summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT under the heading of Model Register.

The response to my letter has meant that we now have sufficient numbers to form a group of lifeboat...

St Ives - Mersey class The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 41) The importance of the naming ceremony for St Ives' Mersey class lifeboat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No 41) was recognised by the weather, which slipped in a warm,...

Channel Islands OUR MOST SOUTHERLY LIFEBOAT STATIONS by Joan Davies SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL Sailing waters in the world; a cruising man's dream in themselves and the gateway to Brittany. Such are the seas which surround Alderney,...

Thursday, 13th April, 1899.

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., in the Chair.

V.P., Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.

Also read those of the Building, Finance and...

AT the International Life-boat Con- ference the proposal was made by Count Yoshii, President of the Imperial Japanese Life-boat Society, that steps should be taken to form an International Life-boat Organization.

COUNT...

AT INTERVALS around our coasts stand solid, stone buildings with arched doorways facing the sea, many now with moss on their tiled roofs, weeds in the gutters and rust on the runners for the massive wooden doors. They are old lifeboathouses,...