LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th Jan., 1871: 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- mittees. The...
Category: Committee
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 3rd January, 1881.
Colonel FiTzROY CLAYTON, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-...
Category: Committee
A War-Time Journey Up the East Coast (1)
A War-Time Journey Up The East Coast. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
MUTUAL AID OFF PORTLAND FOLLOWING the sighting at about 10 p.m. on 4th February, 1972, by the gas tanker Methane Princess of a small vessel firing distress flares off Portland Bill, the Weymouth, Dorset, life-boat was prepared for launching....
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—On the morn- ing of the 23rd December, 1886, signals of distress were observed about a mile distant from Winterton, during a strong N. gale aad a very heavy sea, shown by two vessels which had been in collision. The Win-...
Category: Services
Doreen
At about 9 P.M. on the 14th January the Coxswain, of the Life-boat Arthur B.
Dawes discovered that a vessel was ashore on the rocks of Boulmer South Steel. The night was very dark, with a thick atmosphere. The boat was...
S.S. Moorwood
OCTOBER 28TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.50 in the morning, the naval authorities at Chatham telephoned the coxswain that the S.S. Moorwood had struck a wreck and was going to beach on the South- East Maplin Sands. She was a London...
Above: the Aneroid Barometer That Featured In the August 1882
Above: The aneroid barometer that featured in the August 1882 issue of The Life-Boat Journal. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Thurrock Branch Members Turned a Derelict Ship's Lifeboat Given to the Branch Chairman Sherwin a Chase By a Grays Firm of Ship Breakers Into An Oakley Lifeboat 'Replica' She Is Named Henry
Thurrock branch members turned a derelict ship's lifeboat given to the branch chairman, Sherwin A.
Chase, by a Grays firm of ship breakers into an Oakley lifeboat 'replica'. She is named Henry de Grey and now is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
POET ERIN, ISLE or MAN.—At about 3 P.M. on the 26th August, during a whole W.N.W. gale, the fishing-boat Fear Not, was seen to miss stays and drift towards the rocks. The Life-boat William Sugden was immediately launched, but before she...
Category: Services