LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NORTH DEAL.—A new life-boat station has been established by the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, at the north end of the town of Deal on the Kentish coast, as it was thought that a life-boat placed there might be useful on occasions of wrecks...
Category: Articles
The RNLI looks at the year's work and the future: 97,000 lives saved since 1824 continued from page 16
MR JOHN GRAY, CBE Belfast branch committee member, 1947; and Belfast branch chairman since 1969.
Mr Gray is a businassman in the export field, who gives a most able lead to this successful branch's fund raising, and in...
Category: Meetings
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SBA, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—A signal of distress was made by a vessel northward of Newbiggin point, on the morning of the 9th Jan. 1889. The wind was blowing a gale from the S.E., the sea was very rough, and the...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—At about one o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday, 1st October, 1882, the brigantine Eugenie Auguste, of Castletown, bound for that port from Runcorn with a cargo of coal, was observed to be labouring heavily and...
Category: Services
Phantee
TOW FOR MOTOR BOAT IN THICK FOG St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At 7.50 on the evening of the 7th June, 1963, the coxswain learnt that the motor boat Phantee, with two people on board, had gone out fishing at five o'clock and had not yet...
The Last Engagement on May 10 Was In Scotland;
The last engagement on May 10 was in Scotland; a musical soiree at Blair Castle, the home of the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the Institution.
The Duke of Kent is seen here with the Duke of Atholl and (1) the late Guy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches. 1st July to 30th September
Greater London.
CROYDON (SURREY).—Life-boat Collecting Boxes placed in the booking offices of the Air Lines and also at the Aerodrome Hotel.
BALING. — Drawing-room Meeting, given by Mrs. Brydges, wife of...
Category: Branches
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 97. Lives rescued 84.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—On the even- ing of the 8th January the steamer City of Dublin, of Dublin, bound home from Hamburg with a general cargo, ran...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th October, 1887.
L. T. CAVE, Esq., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vions Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, Building,...
Category: Committee
Lifeboat Services
South West Division Trapped under sea wall AT 1852 on Tuesday September 11, 1984, Lyme Regis honorary secretary was informed by Portland Coastguard that some people had been cut off by the tide at Black Beach groynes, some six cables to the...
Category: Services