LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of this ; truly national and useful Society was held j at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon ,' Street, on the 4th of June. In the un- ; avoidable absence of His Grace the DUKE ', OF MARLBOROUGH,...

THURSDAY, 10th March, 1892.

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart. M.P., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...

Two life-boat stations in the north- west, Barrow and Blackpool, cele- brated their centenaries in April and June.

It was commercial travellers who raised money for the first 36-foot sail- ing life-boat to be stationed...

THE Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association is going from strength to strength as word gets about that a yachtsman who is not a member is like a ship without a rudder. As reported in the June issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, there is...

On the afternoon of 22nd July, 1970, after parting company with the Y.L.A.

chairman homeward bound in his Black Cygnet, I was on passage in our 7-ton sloop Ar-Men from FAbervrac'h bound for Roscoff. It was a fine sunny...

During a severe S.E. gale on the 27th December the Torpedo-boat Destroyer Success ran ashore on the rocky coast at Kingsbarns, about six miles from St. Andrews. The vessel was steaming south, and in the darkness, without any shore lights to...

FOR a service in which Bridlington inshore rescue boat literally had to bounce over rocks on her way in to rescue two young men who had fallen over cliffs the Institution's thanks inscribed on vellum have been accorded to the IRB helms-...

Shortly after 4 p.m. on 12th September, 1967, Mr R. W. S. Gould, who is second coxswain of the Bembridge life-boat, was working in his cafe on the beach at Bembridge when his attention was called to a bather in difficulties some 200 yards...