LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1886
FOR 1886.
His GRACE THE DUKE OF ABERCORN, O.B., IN THE CHAIR.
1. That the Report now read be adopted, printed and circulated.
Moved by The Most Hon. The MARQUIS OF RIPON,...
Category: Meetings
A Gift from the Princess Elizabeth
H.R.H. the Princess Elizabeth has sent the Institution £180. It is the balance of her wedding present from, Kimberley, in South Africa, and it came "with her good wishes and with those of the people of Kimberley.".
Category: Donations
The Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum at Cardiff Docks
The Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum at Cardiff Docks held a reception on June 7 to welcome to its ranks the 42ft Watson lifeboat Watkin Williams, on station at Moelfre from 1956 to 1977.
Guest of honour, seen here with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Girl Betty
ROLLING HEAVILY Wick, Caithness-shire. At 2.40 a.m.
on I4th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Girl Betty of Peterhead was ashore on Proudfoot at the north entrance of Wick Bay....
Hattie
On the morning of the 8th July, a boat was observed about four miles from the shore at Bude, with a signal flying. She tacked about several times, as if intending to make Bude. The crew assembled, and the Elizabeth Moore Garden Life-boat...
The King and the Life-Boat Service
The King and The Life-Boat Service. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John and Sarah, of Great Yarmouth
FEBRUARY 20TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About 5.30 in the afternoon the coxswain received information from the coastguard that a fishing boat was flying a signal and appeared in need of help. A light north-by-west wind was...
Northern Wave
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1957, the Wick coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Northern Wave was ashore on the west side of Dunnet Bay.
At four o'clock the life-boat...
South-Eastern District Conference
A CONFERENCE of Honorary Secretaries and other Life-boat workers in th South-Eastern District — Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire Kent, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey anc Sussex—was held...
Category: Committee
Mr. J. E. Jones (Left), President of the Neptune Swimming Club, Hackney, London, Handing a Cheque for Over £170 to Mr. George Powell,Of the R.N.L.I.'s Wembley Office, the Proceeds of Which W
Mr. J. E. Jones (left), president of the Neptune Swimming Club, Hackney, London, handing a cheque for over £170 to Mr. George Powell,of the R.N.LI.'s Wembley office, the proceeds of which were raised through a sponsored swim... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs