LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 14th June, 1906.
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
The Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts
THE first of three life-boats built out of a gift of £33,000, which the Institution has received from its Southern Africa branch,* was named at Beaumaris, Anglesey, on the 23rd of July, 1948, in the presence of a large audience on the...
Category: Inaugurations
C.E.
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 4.46 on the morning of the 26th of June, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was in distress one mile west of Ramore Head. Within ten minutes the life-boat Laiy Scott, Civil Service No. 4, was...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 2nd May, 1872. His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.C., President of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck...
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
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1899
TH« people of a maritime nation like Great Britain should be especially in- terested in any statistics relating to ships and sailors, and such matters are it may be assumed of particular importance to the friends and supporters of the...
Category: Articles
First Aid for the Shipwrecked
FOR a number of years there has been in Plymouth very close and useful co-operation between the Life-boat Station and the local Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, the Brigade turning out whenever the Life- boat receives a call, and...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
BROUGHTY FERRY, DUNDEE. — On the 24th October, 1868, the barque Betty and Louise, of Hamburg, was stranded during a strong gale on the Cruivie Bank, near Buddon Ness. The Mary Hartley life- boat was quickly manned and launched, and succeeded...
Category: Services
Third Gold Medal Since the War
AT 3.15 on the afternoon of 5th February, 1963, Niton radio informed St. Peter Port radio in Guernsey that the Norwegian motor vessel Johan Collett needed help immediately. Her position was fourteen miles west-north- west of Les Hanois...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LLANDUDNO, CARNARVONSHIRE.—At 1.45 P.M. on the 1st January a signal of distress was shown by two men in a fishing-boat two miles off from land in Llandudno Bay. The men, father and son, had gone out to their fishing lines and were overtaken...
Category: Services