LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Glasgow Ball
AFTER the Edinburgh meeting the Prince of Wales travelled by special train to Glasgow and there attended a Ball, organised by the Glasgow Branch and held on board the s.s. Transylvania, lying in the Clyde. This is the second Ball which,...
Category: Articles
Profile.,,
• MAJOR John Showell-Rogers, R.M., is the station honorary secretary at Poole, Dorset, where there is a 35-foot 6-inch Liverpool type life-boat, the George Elmy, and a Dell Q.uay dory inshore life-boat with the hull number...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
South Western Division Tanker aground GUERNSEY LIFEBOAT, the 52' Arun Sir William Arnold, had been called out at 2250 on July 14, 1975, to escort a fishing boat under tow into harbour.
She returned from this service at...
Category: Services
The "Life-Boat Saturday" Movement
THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION is certainly deeply indebted to the ladies and gentlemen who, under the able guidance of Mr. CHARLES W. MACARA, the energetic promoter of the "Life-boat Saturday" move- ment, brought the...
Category: Articles
52-01, Arun, Prototype of Her Class, Now Stationed at Barry Dock. As Soon As She Was Launched It Was Clear That Here Was the Embodiment of New Ideas.
52-01, Arun, prototype of her class, now stationed at Barry Dock. As soon as she was launched it was clear that here was the embodiment of new ideas.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
COVERACK, CORNWALL.—THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Station at Coverack, where there is an active body of fisher- men, with a view to rendering assist- ance in case of wrecks on the Manacle Rocks, not far from...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 13th June, 1907.
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
The New Stromness Motor Life-Boat
ONE of the first Life-boat Stations to be provided with, a Motor Life-boat was Stromness, in the Orkneys. It was in 1903 that a Pulling and Sailing Lifeboat was first converted to motor-power.
This Boat was followed by two...
Category: Inaugurations
Sjofna, of Oslo
NOVEMBER 23RD. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 2.30 in the morning the Padstow coastguard telephoned that news had been received from the naval authorities at Falmouth that a ship was ashore at Knap Head, near...
Awards to Honorary Workers
DURING February, March, and April, 1921, the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other Honorary Workers, in recognition of their services on behalf of the Institution :— To Miss FLOBENCE EDWARDS, in...
Category: Awards