LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 8th May, 1902.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
News from the Branches. 1st April to 31st July
1st April to 31st July.
Greater London.
GREATER LONDON.—Life-boat day.
District conference. (For special report see page 131.) ACTON AND CHISWICK.—Annual meet- ing. Amount...
Category: Branches
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th Jan., 1875: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.U.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
People and Places
Gemma picks a perfick lottery Actress Gemma Craven, also known as 'Ma Larkin', drew the winning tickets of the 71st RNLI Lifeboat Lottery on 31 October 1995.
Gemma has been starring in 'The Darling Buds of...
Category: Articles
H.M.M.S. 106
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT LOWESTOFT SEPTEMBER 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. At 9.40 in the evening the naval authorities asked that the motor life-boat Michael Stephens should go out to the help of a vessel which was ashore about one and a half...
Feature: Swiftwater Rescue
Although the RNLI's main purpose is saving lives at sea, it also has the people and equipment available to make a difference in flash floods. As reported in the spring 2005 issue of the Lifeboat, members of the Workington lifeboat crew...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 4th June, 1908.
Colonel FITZ-ROY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Corallo and Nopal Branco
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands, and The Lizard, Cornwall.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 25th of March, 1957, it was reported that the motor vessels Corallo, of Trieste, and Nopal Branco, of Oslo, had been in collision and that...
The Keen Minister
In acknowledging the R.N.L.I.'s thanks for his services as chaplain to the St. Mary's, Scilly Islands, life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter, the Rev. George Waddington, who is taking up a new appointment at Paisley, is further offering his...
Category: Articles