LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"Light of All Nations" on the Goodwin Sands
THE following letter has been forwarded to the Committee of this Institution, to which, considering the great importance of the subject, and the apparent feasibility of the proposition, we give insertion, as we fully concur in Mr....
Category: Correspondence
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 10th January, 1889.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., "V.V., in the Chair.
Bead and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and...
Category: Committee
The Naming of Rnlb Ann Ritchie Oban
ON SATURDAY May 7 a damp, overcast morning overshadowed the preparations at Oban for the naming ceremony of the first 33ft Brede lifeboat to go on station. As the time of the ceremony drew nearer, however, the weather improved and a warm,...
Category: Inaugurations
Matthew Drury Handing Over a Cheque for £500 on Behalf of Pupils of Melbourn Village College to Pat Elbourn Honorary Secretary of Royston and District Branch And
Matthew Drury handing over a cheque for £500 on behalf of pupils of Melbourn Village College to Pat Elbourn, honorary secretary of Royston and District branch, and Brian Fitch, assistant district organising secretary... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sea Beat
'COME ON, BEN,' and as Bridlington lifeboat prepares to launch on service Police Constable Usher quickly boards as seventh man; 'I'll come with you,' and at Douglas Chief Inspector Robin Corrin (later Deputy Chief...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 8th June, 1905.
Sir 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
Family Profile By Joan Davies
THEY CAME FROM FRANCE, the TartS of Dungeness. They were Huguenots and it was in the days before religious toleration. So when persecution became too great they took to their boats, being fishing people, and sailed across the Channel to...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
May Meeting.
Longhope, Orkney, and Thurso, Caith- ness-shire.—The Longhope motor life- boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 11.30...
Category: Services
Books
• It is well for a country that she should number among her sons and daughters adventurous and courageous individualists—where, for instance, would the lifeboat service be without them? Such a man was Augustine Courtauld whose biography. The...
Category: Articles
'One of the Dutch Boats Described Was a Fast Rescue Launch Built at the Yards of Messrs. Vosper Thorneycroft In England, With a Speed of 28 Knots' (For More Details See Page 170).
'One of the Dutch boats described was a fast rescue launch built at the yards of Messrs. Vosper Thorneycroft in England, with a speed of 28 knots' (for more details see page 170).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs