LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1869
THE Annual Wreck Register has made its appearance in the midst of two calamities which are nearly overpowering iN their vastness and destructiveness. The war which rages with such fearful havoc on the Continent of Europe, and the foundering...
Category: Annual Reports
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 11th January, 1906.
Silt EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Annual Meeting and Presentation of Awards
Fast fleet 'on target' for 1993 WITH RECORD numbers of lifeboats under construction or on order, the RNLI's chairman, the Duke of Atholl told a packed Royal Festival Hall on May 12 of his vision of the service in the year...
Category: Meetings
New Life-Boats
ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK. — It will be remembered by our readers that in a former number of the Life-boat Journal (207), we mentioned that the boat on this station had been replaced by a new Life-boat of the " Norfolk and Suffolk" type...
Category: Inaugurations
The Day of a DOS By Joan Davies
NOVEMBER, BY TRADITION, is the time for the annual conference of the district organising secretaries, the liaison officers between the RNLI's voluntary financial branches and guilds in the field and its headquarters at Poole. At the...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
Three fishermen saved with just minutes to spare A;L long service in a severe gale and heavy, broken seas has earned Achill Island's Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic, Brian Patten, the RNLI's Silver Medal. The remainder of the crew will...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
POUNDING SEAS BREAK FISHING VESSEL IN HALF Three saved as lifeboat crew battle storm force winds and heavy seas George Duffy, second coxswain/mechanic and Ian Sheridan, deputy second coxswain/assistant mechanic of Howth's Arun class...
Category: Services
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
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
III.—SWANSEA.
The Wolverhampton Life-boat.
THE next Life-boat Station on the south coast of Wales, in rotation after Penarth and Porthcawl, of which we gave an account in our last number (November 2nd,...
Category: Articles
The Prince of Wales As President of the Institution Strongly Advocates the Cause
IT was only in March last that H.K.H.
The PRINCE of WALES very graciously accepted the post of President of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in succession to the late lamented DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, and at once...
Category: Articles