LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 18th October, 1928.
The HON. GEORGE COLVILLE, in the Chair.
Appointed Lieut.-Commander J. M. Upton, R.D., R.N.R., a District Inspector of Lifeboats.
Decided that, for...
Category: Meetings
News from the Branches
Hull's Special Report.
AT the Annual Meeting of the Branch, held on 31st March, the Lord Mayor (Councillor Digby Willoughby), one of; the Presidents of the Branch, proposed that Hull should make a special effort to...
Category: Branches
The Fundraisers
Some w a y s of t i l l i n g t he c o f f e r s . . .
Pushing and pulling Although the new term was only days old, the youngsters at Fowey Community School were soon in action supporting the local community. Fifty-two Year...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 4th August, 1859. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.E.S., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
33 calls round the island
Almost 2,000 vessels registered to circumnavigate the Isle of Wight in this year’s Round the Island Race on 25 June. Force 6–7 winds and swells of up to 3m meant a busy day for five lifeboat crews, with 23 incidents in all. Cowes’s B class...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management.
PORTRUSH, Co. DOWN.-—About 10.40 A..M on 5th December, 1931, a fishing boat was reported to be in difficulties in the Eastern Bay, and the Motor...
Category: Services
The Institution and the Coronation
Spithead Review FOUH life-boats took part in the Coronation Review of the Fleet by Her Majesty the Queen at Spithead on the 15th of June, 1953. Two of the life-boats were the new Campbeltown and Flamborough boats, City of Glas- gow II and...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1926
Persons Time of rescued from 1926. Launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 6. 9.10a.m. Fishing smack Ivan, of Lowestoft. Lowestoft Life-boat stood by vessel.
„ 12. 8. 2 p.m. S.S. Valdura, of Glasgow. Kilmore...
Category: Services
There they are, boy. They were heroes
Seventy years ago, St Ives in Cornwall lost seven men to the sea. Their lives are some of the many celebrated by the new RNLI memorial sculpture in Poole
Present-day St Ives Coxswain Tommy Cocking (53) is the great...
Category: Articles
On the Employment of the Laryngoscope In the Treatment of Asphyxia By Submersion
By A DE LABORDETTE, Surgeon to the Hospital of Laisieux, Knight of the Legion of Honour.
THE laryngoscope has been the subject of a favourable report made to the Imperial Academy of Medicine by Professor...
Category: Articles