LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 13th October, 1904.
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
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NORTH DEAL, KENT.—The s.s. Bion, of Newcastle, laden with oil, from Batoum for London, stranded on the inner part of the North Goodwin Sand in a thick fog on the morning of the 15th Feb., 1902. In response to signals from the Gull...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter
A NUMBER of outstanding services were carried out by life-boat crews in the first quarter of 1962. Of these one of the finest was by a life-boat crew in the Irish Republic ; another was by a crew in Northern Ireland, and a third by the crew...
Category: Articles
The RNLI Benefited By 2001 Sixpences Collected at Evening Performances of the Film 2001: a Space Odyssey at the Abc Cinema Hastings the Money Was Taken to The
The R.N.L.I, benefited by 2,001 sixpences collected at evening performances of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey at the ABC Cinema, Hastings. The money was taken to the bank by spaceman Mr. Fred Robinson.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Tender of the Commissioners of Irish Lights Wanderer
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 9th of June. 1957, a message was received that the relief boat for Rockabill lighthouse had been damaged when she had struck a rock on St. Patrick's Island. Two small outboard motor...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow. — On the morning of the 21st December, 1933, the honorary secretary...
Category: Services
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night By Jilly Cooper
Last winter JILLY COOPER visited {Hastings lifeboat station and recorded her impressions in her own inimitable wayI'VE ALWAYS thought the lifeboats the most romantic of charities. A lump comes to my throat when I think of the courage and...
Category: Articles
The Rescue of Three Fishermen. A Gallant Service off Folkestone
A Gallant Service off Folkestone.
ON the night of Sunday, 13th December last, a strong S.W. gale was blowing off Folkestone, with a very heavy sea and driving rain. The day had been fine, and early in the afternoon the...
Category: Services
I Was Rescued By The Padstow Lifeboat In 1968 [pictured]
I was rescued by the Padstow lifeboat in 1968 [pictured] when I was 20, together with five members of my extended family . - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some of the Guests at the Naming of Ethel Anne Measures
Some of the guests at the naming of Ethel Anne Measures. photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs