LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
MARGATE, KENT.—On the evening of 20th February the Coxswain was in- formed by telephone from the Coast- guard Lookout that lights had been seen at sea. A few minutes later more lights and a rocket were seen in the direction of the Tongue...
Category: Services
Meetings of Committee
Thursday, 7th Dec., 1854. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read letters from the...
Category: Committee
Annual Report
At the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday the 18th day of March, 1862, The Right Honourable WILLIAM CUBITT, Lord Mayor of London, in the Chair, The following Report of the...
Category: Annual Reports
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LXXI. APPLEDORE No. 1.— Temporary Boat, 31 feet by 7J feet, 10 oars.
LXXII. APPLEDORE No. 2.— Jane Hannah MacDanald, 34 feet by 7J feet, 10 oars.
JLXXIJI. BRAUNTON.— Robert and Catherine, 34 feet by 8...
Category: Articles
The Problem of Designing Life-Boats. Self-Righting Life-Boats Or Life-Boats Which Cannot Self-Right
By Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R.
Chief Inspector of Life-boats WHENEVER a life-boat of the type which cannot right herself is capsized the same questions are asked. "Why cannot all life-boats right...
Category: Articles
Rush hour
One breezy Autumn evening at dusk, a passenger vessel travelling along the River Thames collided with Tower Pier in central London. Upriver at Chiswick, another incident unfolded
At 7pm on...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
Last year the Institution had a deficit of nearly £124,000, and the figures for revenue and expenditure at the end of the first six months of the present year indicate that in 1967 there is every likelihood of an even larger deficit. At...
Category: Articles
The Annual General Meeting
THE annual general meeting of the Governors of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 3rd of March, 1959. The Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, was in the...
Category: Meetings
Weather Forecasts and Storm Warnings
IT will have been observed, and doubtless with regret by many of our readers, that in the early part of last month (December, 1866) Government notified their intention of, at least for a season, discontinuing the well-known Storm Warnings to...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WORKINGTON, CUMBERLAND.—In Con- sequence of a shipwreck having occurred here, with, loss of life, in September 1885, the local residents made application to the Institution to form a Life-boat esta- blishment at this port, and as a large...
Category: Articles