LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Touch Of Brass Can Lead To So Much More
A touch of brass can lead to so much more The names of RNLI boats give tantalising hints of their origin. Here, Carol Waterkeyn takes the rare opportunity to meet the man behind one such name When news of a legacy arrives at RNLI...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boat Men
To WM. CHAS. JAMES, on his retirement, after serving four years as Second Coxswain and eighteen years as Coxswain of the Point of Ayr Life-boat, a Framed Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To JOSEPH HUGHES, on his...
Category: Awards
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors THE following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and present- ed with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the .Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution: MR....
Category: Awards
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the February, March, April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow At about 7 P.M. on the 15th December, 1935, five men in the 30-feet motor boat St.
Brendan were engaged hauling their nets when cries for help were heard from...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 13th April, 1899.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., in the Chair.
V.P., Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Michael
Force 11 gusting12 HEARING FROM Fishguard Coastguard at 2200 on Monday, January 13, that Michael of Famagusta, whose engine had broken down, was drifting about 18 miles off the entrance to Waterford, Dunmore East honorary secretary gave...
Travelscope
European • Gibraltar 15 days Sailing direct from Falmouth, 22nd December 2006 7 ports of call: Vigo, Gibraltar, Casablanca, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Tenerife & Madeira Soak up the sun at a selection of fabulous ports of call, enjoy a...
Category: Advertisement
Your Letters
Long lost Barometer I have a small item in my possession which may be of interest to someone, somewhere.
Towards the end of the 1950s, I was on holiday in Folkestone, Kent and picked up, half buried in the shingle, what...
Category: Correspondence
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th July, 1914.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair. Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read the minutes of the Building, Finance and Correspondence,...
Category: Committee
A Service of Which the Nation Is Proud
The following address was given by the Archbishop of York at the funeral of three members of the Scarborough life-boat on 3th December, 1951.
WE have assembled this afternoon to pay a tribute of honour to the three brave...
Category: Articles