LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1909
THE RIGHT HON. LORD GEORGE F. HAMILTON, G.C.S.I., is THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Chairman.
Seconded by SIR JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G.
1. That the Annual Report be adopted, printed and...
Category: Meetings
The 1985 Boat and Caravan Show Birmingham
Fund raisers from the Midlands manned the RNLI stand at the National Exhibition Centre; 123 Shoreline and 36 Storm Force members were enrolled and takings amounted to an impressive £8,521. The main RNLI exhibit was the new St Agnes D... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHPORT, LANCASHIRE.—The Life- boat on this station was rapidly becoming unfit for further service, and it has there- fore been replaced by a new 10-oared boat, 34 feet long, and 8J feet wide. The legacy of 5001. bequeathed to the...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ARANMORE ISLAND, COUNTY DONEGAL.
—On the application of the local residents, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment on Aran- more Island on the north-west coast of Ireland. The coast in...
Category: Articles
Golf Competitions
AN appeal was again made, at the beginning of 1935, to the principal Golf Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland, asking them to hold competitions in aid of the life-boat service, for which the Institution would give silver and enamel spoons. As...
Category: Articles
Tunnel vision
St Abbs crew trusted each other with their lives in an outstandingly gallant rescue
‘This was something you can’t train for and something we’d never seen before. The decisions we made had to be...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services In 1901
Lives saved.
Astrsea, schooner, of Dartmouth—• rendered assistance.
Alfred, ketch, of Padstow—rendered assistance and landed 4.
Ardlethen, P.S., of Aberdeen—ren- dered...
Category: Services
Rini
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 17th of Novem- ber, 1956, the lighthouse keeper at Ballinacourty telephoned that a vessel was ashore on the rocks to the east of the lighthouse and that flares had been seen. At nine...
Niki
When an unknown vessel reported sighting the masts of a sinking ship near the South Varne buoy on 27th February, 1971, the Dungeness life-boat was unable to launch immediately owing to low water and spring tides. The Dover life-boat Faithful...
Worthwhile Find
Whilst turning out a drawer today I came upon some pictures showing the Worthing lifeboat and crews, we wondered if readers would be interested in seeing this cutting (left).
For some time we lived in the building right... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs