LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 3rd August, 1865, THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Lifeboat Services
Scotland North Division Twenty-nine rescued JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on Monday September 29, 1980, the deputy launching authority of Stornoway lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard that the 1,615 gross ton motor fishing vessel Junella...
Category: Services
Books
• Sailing Years, an autobiography by K. Adlard Coles (Granada Publishing, £9.95) is .fascinating reading because alongside the tales of this well-known sailor there emerges the story of the development of sailing and racing offshore. I...
Category: Articles
Letters
Twenty years after...
• The date September 19, 1954 is indelibly written in my mind and may perhaps strike a chord with you. For my part I was one of the crew of the good ship Nicky which went aground on the Mere Rocks.<...
Category: Correspondence
Voices
VoIces Awe and wonder Garden designer Chris Beardshaw is passionate about the earth, the sea – and the RnLi, as Liz Cook fi nds out ‘What is your idea of Paradise?’ that is Chris’s question to everyone for whom he designs a garden. there is...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th May, 1881.
THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., P.E.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-...
Category: Committee
Race for Man and Boy(Services)
A 15 year old youth ran up to a group of fishermen by the harbour at Dunbar, East Lothian, and told them that his brother had been washed off the rocks at the harbour entrance.
Coxswain Robert Brunton, who was present with...
Category: Services
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1903
Jan. 8.—Voted the thanks of the Insti- tution, inscribed on vellum and framed, together with the sum of 21. each, to JAMES HEARNE and three other boatmen for gallantly putting off in a boat and rescuing the crew of four persons from the...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
1st August to 31st October.
Greater London.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drive.
CROYDON.—Presentation by the Mayoress of the shield for Greater London in the life-boat essay competition, to Gordon...
Category: Branches
Annual Report. 1888
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 24th day of March, 1888, His Grace The DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, E.G., President of the...
Category: Annual Reports