LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Memorial memories I have been commissioned to write a book on the Maritime Memorials and Mementoes of Great Britain which will be published by Patrick Stephens about the end of 1994.
To supplement the information which I...
Category: Correspondence
The Late Thomas Wilson, Esq.
IT is with extreme regret that we have to announce the decease of this much-lamented and valued gentleman, by which event the Shipwreck Institution has been deprived of one of its founders, and of its first Chairman of Committee. For a...
Category: Obituaries
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The new Life-boat Queen Victoria, sent by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to Bembridge, and named after Her Majesty THE QUEEN by H.E.H. the Duchess of EDINBURGH, on the 25th of July last, is a beautiful...
Category: Articles
The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
IN a recent number of this Journal, after explaining the reasons which had led to the transfer of the Life-boat Establishments of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society to the Royal National Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Southend-on-Sea, Essex and The Humber, Yorkshire.
LIEUTENANT H.R.H. PRINCE GEORGE, E.G., G.C.V.O., R.N., named the Motor Life-boat which was sent last autumn to Southend-on-Sea, on 8th July last, the name given to the boat...
Category: Inaugurations
Launches
Aberdeen ON-124«17-24|:Jun30.Jul13.
Jul20 D-536 Jun 3. Jun 16, Jun 7(x2l. Jul 15 Aberdovey B-758:Jun4 Abersoch B-5B2: Jun 1(x2l. Jun 4. Jul 26 Aberystwyth B-704: Jun 20. Jun 23. Jun 25. Jul 15.
Jul 17...
Category: Services
The First Steam Life-Boat
THE recent notices in the press, both written and pictorial, of the latest production of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION—" the first steam Lifeboat "—have been so full, that we can quite imagine some of the Society's...
Category: Articles
Saving Life at Sea
To chronicle at the close of each succeed- ing year the notable events which have marked its course, is a very natural and in many ways a useful and profitable duty for statisticians to carry out; and the past year has been anything but un-...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Celebrations: Remembering the Past - Looking to the Future
Jersey centenary While visiting Jersey on Friday June 1, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, a Patron of the RNLI, attended a service of thanksgiving and blessing for St Helier lifeboat station and presented a vellum to mark the...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th January, 1860. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.K.S., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee