LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 11th June, 1891.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
Category: Committee
Naming Ceremonies: Two Station Lifeboats; at Blyth and Valentia and Two Relief Lifeboats
Relief Arun, at Newhaven, September 7 A weekend of severe gales and storms was followed by a glorious sunny day on Wednesday September 7, 1983, the day on which 52-25, a new 52ft Arun relief lifeboat provided by the trustees of the late L. G...
Category: Inaugurations
The Last of the "Malvoisin."
IN Lloyd's List for 4th May appeared the following announcement under " Malvoisin." " Boulogne, May 3.—The Malvoisin, a British ketch plying regularly between London and Calais, was wrecked at 5 a.m. to-day on the shore to...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
IN HIS SPEECH to the governors of the Institution at the annual general meeting held at the Royal Festival Hall on May 12, the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, reported that 1980 had been a year of great achievement for the RNLI, with...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE RNLI INQUIRY into the capsizes of Barra Island and Islay lifeboats off the west coast of Scotland last November, reported on page 6, has concluded that both lifeboats were overwhelmed by heavy breaking seas in violent storm conditions...
Category: Articles
New Members of the Committee of Management
Brigadier J. W. G. Gow, O.B.E., D.L.; Commander the Hon. Greville Howard, M.P.; Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Murray Longmore, G.C.B. and Com- mander, F. R. H. Swann, R.N.V.R.
(Retd.) have accepted co-option to the Committee...
Category: Committee
A Year of Exceptional Achievement for RNLI
— Annual Meeting Report APACKED Central Hall, Westminster, heard Captain the Hon. V. M.
Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the Committee of Management, report on 20th April, 1966, that never had the life-boat service, in all...
Category: Meetings
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 11th January, 1900.
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
Fowey: the Champagne Bottle Breaks As Mr Paul Chilcott Names the 33Ft Brede Class Lifeboat Rnlb Leonore Chilcott Photograph By Courtesy of Harry and Billy Graeme
Fowey: The champagne bottle breaks as Mr Paul Chilcott names the 33ft Brede class lifeboat RNLB Leonore Chilcott. photograph by courtesy of Harry and Billy Graeme. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Record of a Legacy. 1,072 Lives Rescued By the Twenty James Stevens Life-Boats
1,072 Lives Rescued by the Twenty James Stevens Life-boats.
IN 1894 the Institution received under the will of the late Mr. James Stevens, of Birmingham, a sum of £50,000, to be spent on the construction of twenty...
Category: Articles