LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Saturday, 15th May, 1897.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
The "Lloyd's" Motor Life-Boat. Inaugural Ceremony at Cowes
THERE has been a Life-boat Station at Stornoway, Island of Lewis, in the Northern Hebrides since 1887. Last year, owing to the increasing number of wrecks in the Southern Hebrides, it was decided to establish a Station at Barra Island, and...
Category: Inaugurations
This just in
The internet has had a huge effect on the way local and national newsrooms are run. In response, the RNLI has launched a multimedia press centre with the latest RNLI news releases, photos and videos from all corners of the UK and RoI, all...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
Bruno backs the lifeboats Harwich lifeboatmen had a very special visitor in August, when Frank Bruno came to town promoting the wacky gameshow 'It's a Knockout'. The former heavyweight boxing champ was backing the RNLI's...
Category: Articles
Life-Boats for Ships of War
THE melancholy accident which occurred to two boats of H.M.S. Ariadne, in March of the present year, again revived the questions as to the most suitable life- boats for ships of war, and the best description of apparatus for lowering them...
Category: Articles
M.V. Futurity and Little Slam (1)
Collision A COLLISION IN DENSE FOG between MV Futurity and the motorboat Little Slam some three miles south east of Littlehampton was reported to the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 1510 on Saturday May 12, 1979....
Seal
Wicklow.—At 11.5 in the morning of the 27th of October, 1948, a boat was seen to be in difficulties and flying a distress signal two miles south-west of Newcastle Point, and the motor life-boat Lady Kylsant was launched at...
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION held at the London Tavern, on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, 1864, the Eight Honourable Sir JOHN S. PAKINGTON, Bart., G.C.B., M.P., in the Chair, The following Report...
Category: Annual Reports
Contents
Contents Volume 51 Number 505 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: LTCDR BRIAN MILES RDMNIRNR Editor: MIKE FLOY0 Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15...
Category: Contents
Publicity and Propaganda In Scotland. Formation of a Scottish Council
FOR some considerable period the Committee of Management have felt that the organisation in Scotland of our appeal for funds to carry on the Life-boat Service has not been effective, and that, as a result, the amount raised in that part of...
Category: Committee