LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 10th January, 1889.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., "V.V., in the Chair.
Bead and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and...
Category: Committee
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
Rescue By 14-Foot Rowing Boat
About eight o'clock on the evening of 8th December, 1962, the trawler Boston Heron ran aground at Stilamair, an uninhabited island south-west of Scalpay in the Little Minch. A south- south-westerly gale was blowing, gusting to force 9,...
Category: Services
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, TUESDAY MAY 16 TRIUMPH IN THE FACE OF A MOST TESTING WINTER 'GOOD MORNING, AND WELCOME . . .' The annual general meeting of governors of the RNLI, held this year for the first time in the Purcell Room of the...
Category: Meetings
Award for Bravest Act of Lifesaving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life- boat crew in 1959 has been won by Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre for the rescue of the crew of the coaster Hindlea, which went aground in a hurricane on the...
Category: Awards
Bon Accord
PETERHEAD, N.B.—On the 31st August the boats prosecuting the herring fishing at Peterhead proceeded to sea. During the night a strong breeze sprang up from the N.E. and raised a heavy sea, and the boats ran for the harbour. About 11...
The S.S. Ford Fisher, of Barrow
Dungeness, Kent. — At about [11.30 M. on the 10th December, 1937,information was received from a local boatman that a steamer was aground off the No. 2 Station. A whole S.S.^T gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and heavy rain. The No. 2...
Weather Forecasts
THE forecasting of storms and weather- changes is generally supposed to be wrapped in mystery, md the rules which have from time to time been laid down for the assistance of the would-be fore- caster, to say the least, only experimental,...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PENZANCE.—The Life-boat stationed some years since at Penzance has been replaced by a new one provided by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
The new boat is 36 ft. long, 8 ft. wide, and rows 12 oars double - banked....
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (16)
SEPT. 9TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX, AND DUNGENESS, KENT. At 9.29P.M. the coastguard at Fairlight reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea a mile to the east. The weather was clear and the sea was calm. At 9.35 the Dungeness lifeboat...