LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Vessel
Other Launches on the Night of the 28th.
On the opposite side of Anglesey to Moelfre and Beaumaris. the two Holyhead Life-boats were also out for the greater part of the night, the Steam Life-boat being launched twice, the...
The H.M.S. Spider & Condor
At 2.30 A.M. on the 22nd November the Coastguard reported that a steamer had grounded on the beach and was making signals of distress. The Coxswain, John Swan, therefore assembled his crew and launched the Life-boat Kentwell. On...
Pensions for Widows and Orphans
As our readers are aware, it has been the practice of the Institution, from its earliest days, to make substantial grants to the widows and children of the gallant men who have lost their lives "on active service" in the cause of...
Category: Articles
The Central Appeals Committee
THE first target of the Central Appeals Committee is to raise over £75,000 of new money during the present financial year. The R.N.L.I.'s estimate of income provides for receipt of this amount, which is part of the £550,000...
Category: Committee
New Life-Boats Named In Norfolk and Devon
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS OF KENT, the President of the Institution, named the new Sheringham life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows at a ceremony at Shering- ham on the 15th June, 1962. The bulk of the money for the...
Category: Inaugurations
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 10th April, 1913.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
The Committee expressed deep regret at the death of Admiral J. HALLIDAY CAVE, G.B., V.P., who had been a member of...
Category: Committee
Summary of Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th June 1878: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck and...
Category: Committee
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Services In 1893
Lives saved.
Cairns, brlgantine, of Kowey—assisted to save vessel and 7 Alexandra, barque, of Frederik- stad—assisted to save vessel.
Alpha, brig, of Ilernosand—as- sisted to save...
Category: Articles
Signals for Life-Boat Stations
THE want having been often felt of some general system of signals for intercommu- nication, on occasions of shipwreck, between life-boat stations when within signal distance of each other, the Committee have caused the following simple plan...
Category: Articles