LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Books
• Commenting on Yacht Signalling by Bernard Hayman (Nautical Books, Macmillan, £8.95) Rear Admiral W. J.
Graham, director of the Institution, wrote: 'This most comprehensive book on signalling to and from yachts is...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies: Falmouth Tynemouth Campbeltown Holyhead and Harwich
Elizabeth Ann, Falmouth EXACTLY AT 2.30 pm on Tuesday June 10, two RNAS Culdrose helicopters streaming RNLI flags flew past the Customs House Quay, Falmouth, thus raising the curtain on the first of the 1980 lifeboat naming...
Category: Inaugurations
In Memory of Robert Theophilus Garden. Esq.
IN MEMORY OF ROBERT THEOPHILUS GARDEN, ESQ., OP RIVER LYONS, PHTLIPSTOWN, KING'S COUNTY, IRELAND.
DIED 10TH OCTOBER, 1862, AGED 73 YEARS.
" Him that cometh (o Me I will in no wise cast out."...
Category: Obituaries
Our Inland Branches. Settle
DOES our reader know where Settle is, or the description of country that has to be traversed in making the journey to this part of England ? The question will pro- bably be answered in the negative, as it is a small market town of some 2000...
Category: Articles
Meetings of Committee
llth Nov. GEORGE PALMER, Esq., V.P,, in the Chair.
CONFIRMED Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Ordered the sale of 2001. Exchequer Bills, to...
Category: Committee
April
Launches 25. Lives rescued 32.
APRIL 2ND. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX. At 11.12 A.M. the military authorities reported, through the coastguard, that a soldier was adrift in a small rowing boat, without oars, about four hundred...
Category: Services
Portrush: Pulling and Sailing to Fast Afloat Arun By Joan Davies
AT NOON on Sunday March 1, 1981, a new Arun class lifeboat was placed on service at Portrush lifeboat station, and yet another page was turned in a story of lifesaving on the north coast of Ireland which began in 1860. That was the year in...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 9th January, 1902.
Captain the Hon. JOHN M. YORKE, R.N., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Reported that His Majesty THE KING had...
Category: Committee
April
APRIL Launches 77. Lives rescued 131.
APRIL 1ST. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 11.53 P.M. on 31st March, a message was received from the resident naval officer at Brixham that a boat from H.M.S. Pomerol with men on board was adrift...
Category: Services
Hospital for Aged and Disabled Master Mariners and Seamen
MASTER MARINERS AND SEAMEN.
INTIMATELY connected with the work of Preservation of Life from Shipwreck is all that concerns the welfare, and tends to improve the character of the men who constitute our Mercantile Marine,...
Category: Articles