LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Food for Life-Boats
All life-boats carry chocolate, biscuits and rum, as emergency rations. The life-boats with cabins, which may have long distances to travel, also carry corned-beef.
To their rations have now been added coeoa-milk and oxtail...
Category: Articles
BRINGING THEM HOME
Towing a stricken boat to the safety of port might seem routine but, in often gruelling conditions, it takes great skill and smart decision making. So what’s involved in a tow?
First, the crew must decide whether or not they need...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Regulations
THE following regulations are intended for guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the National Shipwreck Insti- tution, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 4th January, 1866. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., r.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Great Rail Journeys
USA COAST TO COAST 2003 Departure Dates and Costs 22 April £2250 8.22 July £2490 6 May £2350 2.9 Sept £2490 3 June £2390 30 Sept £2390 17 June £2490 New York to the Rockies and California Travel with the...
Category: Advertisement
First Prize for Sheffield Schoolgirl
ELIZABETH LAVINIA MAXFIELD, of North and South Anston County Pri- mary School, North Anston, Sheffield, won first prize in the competition for the best essay on the life-boat service organized by the Institution.
The...
Category: Articles
Collach, of Coll
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 5.40 p.m. on 5th September, 1966, a boat was reported to be overdue between Tirea and Coll. The life-boat EMM. Gordon Cubbin left her moorings at 5.50 in a gale force south westerly wind and a rough sea. It was...
Salvage for Rescuing the Crews of Wrecked Ships
REPRESENTATIONS having been made to the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION regarding the crews of its life-boats making claims on owners for rescuing the crews of their wrecked vessels in cases where property of trifling...
Category: Committee
Award for Outstanding Feat of Naval Aviation
Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N. presents the Boyd Trophy to Lieut. R. H. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 28th April, 1927.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the death of the Lord Brownlow, and also of Mr. Henry E. Fargus, Members of the Committee of...
Category: Committee