LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats In June, July and August, 1951. 116 Lives Rescued
DURING June life-boats went out on service 39 times and rescued 27 lives.
HOPE FOR THE FISH HARVEST Longhope, Orkneys.—At 1.57 on the morning of the 1st of June, 1951, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the fishing...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (69)
AU G U S T 2 N D . - G O U R D O N , K I N CARDINESHIRE. A German bomber hadbeen shot down by S.S. Highlander, one of two which she brought down, but no trace of the crew could be found. - Rewards, £20 11s. 6d..
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 13th June, 1907.
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
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 4th June, 1908.
Colonel FITZ-ROY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 2nd Jan., 1873: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and "Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 3rd June, 1880.
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...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1959
5 Shoreham Harbour .. S.S. Panaghia Date 1959 Jan.
Feb.
1 Humber 1 Dungeness 1 Hastings 1 Newcastle, Co. Down 2 Poole 2 Arranmore 3 Margate 4 Moelfre 4 Stornoway 6 Barra Island 7 Yarmouth, I.o.W...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th October, 1913.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read the minutes of the Building,...
Category: Committee
Ex-Coxswain Douglas Kirkaldie
The death occurred in April this year of ex-Coxswain Douglas Kirkaldie who was from 1946 to 1952 in command of the Ramsgate, Kent, life-boat. He was 81. Mentioned in despatches for decoy work during the Dunkirk evacuation, Mr. Kirkaldie was...
Category: Donations
H.M. Tug Swarthy and H.M.S. Saltburn
OCTOBER 25TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. During a south-westerly gale, with very rough seas, the naval authorities at Portsmouth asked the Bembridge life-boat to go to the help of two ships in distress off Horse Sands...