LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IT will be remembered that at a special meeting of Grand Lodge, held more than a year ago, it was decided that the sum of 4,000?. should be voted to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION, for the purpose of founding two Life-boat Stations...

THERE are few sailors in the habit of trading to the river who will not be acquainted with the Swan, a dandy-rigged cutter, that serves as the Thames Floating Church, and may generally be seen lying alongside one of the sections of colliers...

The RNLI's Annual Meetings for 1995, held on 18 May, took place at a new venue in London - the Barbican Centre in the City.

The move from the South Bank Centre was a break with the tradition of the past few years and...

UNITED STATES.

THE Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ending 30th June, 1913, states that 73 lives were lost on the coasts (which includes the coast of the Great...

Sometimes you can do everything right and the sea will still find a way to catch you out. Two friends from Bristol found this out when they decided to hit the east Devon coast for the late May Bank Holiday

With...

DOUGLAS (!SLE OF MAN).-—Life-boat Sunday was held on 5th August, on Douglas Head, and a record congrega- tion assembled. The prayers were said by the Rev. A. C. McNeal, the vicar of St. Ninian's. The lesson was read by Colonel Madoc,...

Walton-on-the-Naze.

The Annual Meeting was held on the 29th December, the chair being taken by Mr. E. Standley, in the unavoidable absence of Mr. J. W. Eagle, the Chair- man. The account for the year ending the 30th...

After the first sixteen months of the war the building of new life-boats almost ceased, and during the five years, eight months and five days of war, the Institution was able to send to the coast only seventeen new life-boats instead of the...