LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, llth Sept., 1862.—Capt. Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.<...
Category: Committee
In the Open
The RNLI headquarters and depot's bi-annual Open Days were postponed from 1990 to 1991 because of building work - but the wait was worthwhile..
Nearly 1.000 people took the guided tours of the RNLI buildings during the...
Category: Articles
The Big Plunge:
The Big Plunge: A group of North Devon servicemen took the plunge for charity. Eighteen divers from RAF Chivenor and Locking Sub Aqua Clubs leapt from Barnstaple bridge to raise £600. It took three hours for the men to float four miles... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Women of Newbiggin
Award of the Thanks of the institution Inscribed on Vellum.
ON the morning of January 26th, the whole of the Newbiggin fishing fleet had gone out in fine weather, but while they were at sea a sudden gale sprang up. By...
Category: Awards
The Oxford Annual Meeting
In the centre is Miss Alice Marshall, Honorary Secretary. On her right: The Warden of New College (The Right Hon. H. A. L. Fisher, M.P.) and Captain Bourne, M.P. On her left: The Mayor, Admiral Sir Lionel Halse/ and Sir Godfrey... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Barge Melissa
Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 12.33 A.M. on the 3rd January, 1938, flares were seen in the bay, and at 12.50 A.M.
the motor life-boat Prudential put out to investigate. A moderate E.N.E.gale was blowing, with a rough...
The Fraserburgh Disaster
Examining the life-boat (See page 469). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Steamship Briton
About 10 P.M. on the 15th January, the Coast- guard watchman reported that a steamer was blowing her whistle apparently close to the shore. The weather was thick at the time and nothing could be seen, but on the fog lifting a little a...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Mrs.
Louisa Taylor, one of the launchers at Newbiggin, Northumberland. The Newbiggin women were awarded the Institution's thanks on vellum for helping to haul the life-boat up a cliff,...
Category: Articles
The Bull Light-Vessel
The Humber, Yorkshire.—The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 10.30 A.M. on the llth May in response to a message received from the Humber Conservancy that a vessel had collided with the Bull light-vessel during a fog. The...