LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Centenary of Life-Boat Stations. Presentation of Vellums Signed By the Prince of Wales
Blyth, Northumberland.
THE Blyth Life-boat Station was established in 1826, when the Newcastle Branch Association applied to the Institution for a Life-boat, and the Station was taken over by the Institution in 1866. It has...
Category: Articles
December (1)
INVERGORDON, ROSS-SHIRE. On the 21st of August, 1946, the Invergordon and Balblair motor ferry boat was on a run to Invergordon when, at 4.20, she saw a naval whaler capsize. A north-east wind was blowing against the ebb tide and raising a...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN.—A new Life-boat establishment has been formed here by the, Institution, some shipwrecks which had taken place in the locality, having shown the desirability of having a Life-boat on the spot, in the event of...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
Category: Medals
The Prince of Wales and the Life-Boat Service. Speeches of His Royal Highness at the Annual General Meeting on the 18th March, 1893
" As your chairman to-day it is my duty to move the first resolution, which is ' That the report now read be adopted, printed and circulated.' The last occasion on which I had the satisfaction of presiding at the Annual...
Category: Meetings
Liberal of Wisebeach
On the 15th April, at daylight, a sloop was observed to be on shore on the south end of the Goodwin Sands. As soon as there was sufficient water on the sands for a boat to cross them, the Walmer life-boat was launched, and proceeded under...
Danmark
The E.S.E. gale of the 30th and 31st January caused several disasters in the vicinity of Ramsgate, and the Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens had not returned very long from a fruitless journey when she was called out again.
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Life-Boats and Property Salvage
THE occasional claims for property salvage made by members of life-boat crews sometimes lead to misunder- standing of both the law and practice in this matter, and mis-statements of fact are not infrequently made both publicly and privately....
Category: Articles
The Secretary Retires
COLONEL A. D. BURNETT BROWN, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., M.A.. retired from the post of Secretary of the Institution on the 30th of June, 1960, after twenty- nine years in the Institution's service.
He came to the Institution...
Category: Committee
New Ways of Raising Money
MRS. BOUTWOOD, honorary secretary of the Stanmore branch, has been holding gramophone evenings for young people, contributions for the entertainment being given to the Life- boat Service.
An unusual dance for those in their...
Category: Donations