LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE forty-first anniversary of this ad- mirable society was held at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon Street, on the 27th May, under the presidency of Admiral Sir ALEXANDER MILNE, G.C.B., Vice- President.
Amongst those...
Category: Meetings
Isle of Man. Douglas. Concert and Thanksgiving Service
Concert and Thanksgiving Service.
The Centenary Celebrations in Douglas were held on Saturday and Sunday, May 22nd and 23rd, the Chairman of the Committee of Management, Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., going to Douglas specially...
Category: Articles
Review. "The Story of the Sea: The Sea, Its History and Romance." By Frank C. Bowen (Halton and Truscott Smith. Vol. I. 15s. Net)
MB. BOWEN has performed a public ser- vice in writing this book, which sets forth in a straightforward, and at times almost prosaic, way the romantic history of the sea and its ships. We use the word " prosaic " advisedly, for what...
Category: Articles
New Life-Boat Station In Scotland. Barra Island In the Southern Hebrides
Barra Island in the Southern Hebrides.
IN July the Committee of Management decided to establish a Motor Life-boat Station at Castlebay, on Barra Island, in the Southern Hebrides. There has been a Station at Stornoway in...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
IN the last few months money has been raised for the Institution in a number of new and striking ways. A particularly welcome gift was one of £155 which came from Miss Erica Marx, of the Hand and Flower Press, Aldington, Kent. This...
Category: Donations
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd April, 1857. His Grace the PRESIDENT in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read...
Category: Committee
Naming Ceremonies In Ireland
FOUR life-boats were named in Ireland in August and September, 1950, at Donaghadee, Clogher Head, Baltimore and Arranmore.
Donaghadee The new Donaghadee life-boat has been built out of a gift from Lady Kelly, of...
Category: Inaugurations
Ferm
Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 9.20 On the night of the 1st of March, 1957, a member of the life-boat crew reported that he had seen a distress signal near the mouth of the River Ythan. The Belhelvie coastguard was immediately contacted but...
Marie Louise
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 6.30 on the morning of the 5th of June, 1957, a report was received that a motor vessel was aground on the Salisbury bank in the River Dee. She was not in any danger and watch was kept on her.
At 4.20...
A Motor Launch (1)
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—At 5.58 on the evening of the 14th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a motor launch needed help between Sully Island and Lavernock Point. At 6.50 the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched in a...