LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (20)
MAY 26TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. It had been reported that an aeroplane had come down into the sea, but the life-boat’s help was not needed. - Rewards, £9 1s..
The American Yacht China Bird
At 1.18 p.m. on 28th August, 1966, a yacht was reported aground on the Sunk sands near the Great Sunk beacon. There was a fresh easterly breeze with a rough sea.
It was two hours after high water. The lifeboat Edian...
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1935
1st May to 31st July, 1935.
Greater London.
Prince of Wales Day for the life-boats was held in Greater London, on 21st May, in Acton and Chiswick, Ashford, Barnes, Battersea, Beckenham, Bermondsey,...
Category: Branches
Bosun and Motor Fishing Vessel Gentlemaid
Two under tow AT 1209 on August 21, 1973, the honorary secretary of Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, was informed by Warden Point Coastguard that a yacht had been sighted aground off the Red Sand area, bearing 050° three to four miles from...
Lifeboat Services
VERY LITTLE SEAROOM AND FUEL OIL ON THE DECKS Two services in eight days to factory ships - 40 men saved The joint second coxswain of the Lerwick lifeboat, William Clark, has achieved the rare distinction of being awarded the RNLI's...
Category: Services
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1893
Jan. 11.—Five men waded into the sea and saved the crew of three men from a fishing boat which had been capsized in a surf at Shering- ham, Norfolk—Reward, 11. 5s.
Jan. 11.—Four men put off in a boat and saved one of two...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 2nd September, 1869: 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-...
Category: Committee
The Fundraisers
Helping hand The Mayor of St. Albans, the Revd Cllr Robert Donald, assisted St. Albans and district branch with a successful collection on 13 December 1996. The collection took place outside Safeways supermarket in Fleetville, St. Albans and...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meetings 2000
The RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards, held on 18 May 2000, once again took place at the Barbican Centre in the City of London. The morning AGM allowed Chairman David Acland, who retires at the end of July, to...
Category: Meetings
The Royal Naval Exhibition, Chelsea, 1891. (Second Article.)
THE closing of this Exhibition last week will be regretted by the large number who have spent many an amusing and indeed instructive on hoar within its gates.
The original promoters, executive com- mittee and all others...
Category: Articles