LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
THE PRESENTATION of no fewer than 23 medals for gallantry, an exceptionally high number for any one year, provided the central feature of this year's annual general meeting and served as a reminder to the large number of supporters...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 8th November, 1934.
Sir GODFREY -BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— . - £ s. d.
South Metropolitan' Gas Co. ...
Category: Committee
Standing By the Fishing Fleet
The Whitby motor life-boat at the harbour bar (See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st December, 1954 79,058 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1954 has been one on which the Life-boat...
Category: Articles
The Liverpool Ball
H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES, E.G., President of the Institution, attended a Life-boat Ball which was organized by the Port of Liverpool and District Branch and held at the Adelphi Hotel on 4th November. During the day the Prince had visited...
Category: Articles
Echo, of London
Another excellent service was performed by this valuable life-boat on the 17th December. Soon after midnight a vessel was reported on shore at Eccles, about a mile and a half from Palling. It was blowing a heavy gale of wind from the N.W. at...
The Amazon, of Gothenburg
On the 17th Sept. the Life-boat Van Kook res- cued 5 men, who, having been engaged in saving wreckage from the Amazon, of Gothenburg, lost on the Goodwin Sands on the previous day, were placed in a position of extreme peril by the increase...
The S.S. Lilian
SEAHAM, DURHAM.—A reef of rocks about one mile to the south of Seaham Harbour was, on the 18th February,the scene of a shipping disaster which would have probably caused the loss of twelve lives had it not been for the valuable aid rendered...
Notes of the Quarter
THE summer of 1959 has been officially described by the Meteorological Office as the driest since accurate records of rainfall began to be kept more than two hundred years ago, yet it was also the busiest summer the life-boat service has...
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.
Launches 110. Lives rescued 102.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow_On the night of the 20th November,...
Category: Services