LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Late Storm
M. MARIE-DAVY, who is intrusted with the Meteorological Department at the Observatory, Paris, has communicated a Paper to the Academy of Sciences on the great storm of the 2nd and 3rd of December. He confirms the statement that it was owing...
Category: Articles
The Fund Raisers
Some ways of filling the coffers… Society pledge In 1990, the Bristol and West Building Society ran a vendor guarantee scheme whereby £100 was pledged to charity for every case proved where the society failed to meet certain standards....
Category: Articles
Fig 2: Engine Beds In Place Note Bulkhead at Forward End of Engine Room (Right)
Fig. 2: Engine beds in place. Note bulkhead at forward end of engine room (right).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rnli News
Reasons to celebrate The opening of Ramsey's new hoathouse in a ceremony on 6 April was much welcomed by all.
The new boathouse. situated at the north end of the south promenade, has been specially designed to house the...
Category: Articles
Father of forecast
Charles Darwin’s fame obscures the lifetime’s work of an equally gifted pioneer. Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle on that legendary voyage, was an extraordinary scholar, scientist and philanthropist – and a force behind the RNLI’s...
Category: Articles
North Star
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the 8th of April, 1947, the fishing fleet put to sea at about 6.0 in the morning, but by nine o'clock a gale was blowing from the east, and a heavy sea was making the harbour entrance dangerous. As the tide was too...
News from the Branches
Presentation of Medals and Other Awards.
GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON.— On 14th March a meeting was held at the Coliseum, Great Yarmouth, at which the Mayor presided, supported by Mr.
A. H. Cartwright,...
Category: Branches
A Schooner The Prospect, of Berwick on Tweed
On the 1st Jtntnays 1861, another dchot«er, th* Prospeet, of Berwick-on- f weed, laden with colds; wifll ft crew of Sii Sse'fi, wta observed at anfeiof & the' Cio^uet Roads, apparently in a sinking state* and close to the...
Built to Order Built to Last
The Atlantic 21 has to be tough and reliable - the lives of survivors and crew depend on it. Claire Judd, Assistant Editor, visited the RNLI's Inshore Lifeboat Centre, Cowes, to investigate the work that goes into the construction of...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th June, 1877: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and...
Category: Committee