LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 8th February, 1934.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. d.
Donation from the executors of the late Mr...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. On the j 1st January, 1904, the Life-boat Kezia Gwilt rendered very useful service to the barque Faulconnier, of Dunkirk. ' During a strong breeze from E.S.E. and rough sea, with somewhat hazy weather, • the...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th Jan., 1871: 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- mittees. The...
Category: Committee
City of Ghent
Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.27 on the evening of the 15th of November, 1955, the motor vessel City of Ghent, of Dublin, wirelessed that she had run ashore about three miles north-east- by-east of Lizard, but had later re- floated and was...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
May Meeting.
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — At 2.15 P.M. on the 1st April the local motor fishing coble B. S. Colling put out to...
Category: Services
The Landing Craft L.C.T.532
NOVEMBER 5TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 2.12 in the morning the coastguard reported that landing craft L.C.T.532 was signalling for help. Her tank had been damaged and she had no fuel. The naval authorities said that the local tug was...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 107. Lives rescued 38.
September Meeting.
Stromness, Orkney.—On the 24th June the steam trawler Braemar, of Aberdeen, homeward bound from fishing, ran ashore on the north side of Birsay in a...
Category: Services
Abstract of the Wreck Register for 1876-77
TYRELLA, Co. DOWN.—On the 13th April, at about 7 A.M., the brigantine Cygnet, bound from Silloth to Dundalk, with a cargo of coal, was driven ashore in Dandrum Bay during a strong S.E. gate.
The Memorial Life-boat put off...
Category: Articles
Feature: the House That Vic Built
Lifeboat stations around the coast are subject to immense wear and tear from the launch and recovery of lifeboats and exposure to the elements. If lifeboats are to remain operational their boathouses and slipways must, however, be kept in a...
Category: Articles
An American Tank Landing Craft
OCTOBER 13TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
Late in the afternoon an American tank landing craft, manned by about a dozen British naval men, had got into difficulties off the Chesil Beach in a heavy south-west gale, with a very rough...