LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 9th May, 1889.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., Y.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence...
Category: Committee
An Aeroplane (46)
APRIL 20TH. - APPLEDORE, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 1 P.M.
a message was received at Appledore from the Croyde coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea on the south side of Morte Bay, and at 1.10 P.M. the...
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
Lin. LYME REGIS. The William Wood- code, 33 feet by 8 feet, 10 oars.
SITUATED in a valley between two hills, on the extreme western seaboard of Dor- setshire, Lyme Regis has been a place of some importance, not only in...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1951
Persons rescued from shipwreck Kilmore life-boat landed a sick man from the Coningbeg lightvessel.
Fishing coble Premier, of Scarborough. Scarborough life-boat escorted coble.
Fishing boat Isa Simpson, of...
Category: Services
Rescue from Coaster With Forty-Five Degree List
At 7.30 on the morning of the 5th of November, 1957, the honorary secretary of the New Brighton station, Captain G. Ayre, learnt from the Formby coastguard that the /. B. Kee, a coaster of 211 tons, of Castletown, Tsle of Man, was in...
Category: Services
News from the Branches. 1st January to 31st March
Greater London.
CITY.—Annual meeting at the Mansion House, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair. Amount collected in 1932 £6,241, as compared with £7,647 in 1931.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drive....
Category: Branches
THE FORCE BEHIND THE LAUNCH
While many lifeboats lie afloat in harbours, primed to head straight out to sea, others sit in boathouses on the shore. So, what – and who – is involved when it comes to getting an all-weather craft to sea in an...
Category: Articles
Annual Report. 1906
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, "Whitehall, on Wednesday, the 21st day of March, The Eight Honourable Lord Tweedmouth, First Lord of the Admiralty,...
Category: Annual Reports
Focus on . . . St. Abbs
St. Abbs life-boat station still holds the record for the longest service by one of the Institution's life-boats. This was achieved by the previous life-boat W. Ross Macanhur of Glasgow when she stood by the Swiss cargo ship Nyon for 11...
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Record of Rescues In 1967
1967 month January February March April May June July August September October November December Number of times life-boats called out on service 65 49 85 66 69 117 144 154 122 113 60 59 1,103 Lives saved by life-boats 25 25 67 23 67 98 67...
Category: Services