LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THDBSDAY, 3rd Oct., 1872: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S,, V.P., in the Chair.
.Read 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, 6th January, 1870: THOMAS CHAP- MAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
Two Bronze Medal Services. Hartlepool (Durham) and Selsey and Bognor (Sussex)
Hartlepool (Durham) and Selsey and Bognor (Sussex).
ON the morning of 26th September last a three-masted Danish auxiliary schooner, the-Doris, of Thuro, attempted to enter the harbour at Hartlepool. A strong N.N.E. gale...
Category: Services
Awards to Honorary Workers
To Mr. H. SUTCLIITE-SMITH,* in recognition of his valuable co-operation as Honorary Secretary of the Bradford and District Branch, the Gold Pendant and the Record of Thanks.
To Mrs. RICHARD DAVIES, in recognition of her...
Category: Awards
A Bronze Medal Service at Blyth
ABOUT five in the evening of 23rd December, 1938, the coastguard rang up the life-boat station at Blyth, Northumberland, to report a ship, firing rockets and blowing her whistle, about three miles east of Newbiggin Point. At 5.15 the motor...
Category: Services
A Service of Which the Nation Is Proud
The following address was given by the Archbishop of York at the funeral of three members of the Scarborough life-boat on 3th December, 1951.
WE have assembled this afternoon to pay a tribute of honour to the three brave...
Category: Articles
Silver Medal Awarded to Hampshire Cafe Proprietor
SHORTLY before one o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th of March, 1959, which was Easter Monday, a 30-feet motor fishing boat with three people on board, who were returning from a pleasure trip, capsized at the entrance to Christchurch...
Category: Services
Bounty, of Jersey
FIREMEN TO THE RESCUE WHEN the 25-foot fishing vessel Bounty of Jersey, G.I., with four men aboard, was reported in difficulties at 8.21 p.m. on 24th July, 1970,* off the Rigdon Bank in St. Ouen's Bay, Jersey, the St. Helier life-boat...
A Night on the Goodwin Sands
ON the 20th of April last a grievous disaster occurred on the Goodwin Sands, which resulted in the loss of a Norwegian brig, The Auguste Herman Francke, with six hands out of a crew of seven all told.
All day on the 20th a...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
POINT or AYR (FLINTSHIRE), and FORMBY (LANCASHIRE).—As previously mentioned in The Life-boat, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, having taken over these stations from the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board, has replaced the Life-boats on...
Category: Articles