LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News from the Branches. April 1st to June 30th
Greater London.
CARSHALTOX (SURREY).—Whist Drive.
CRANFORD (MIDDLESEX). — Whist Drive.
ELSTREE (HERTFORDSHIRE). —• On 28th June a Garden Party given by Sir Trevor and Lady Dawson at...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th June, 1866. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Admiralty Register of Wrecks for the Years 1850-51
SUCH is the title of an interesting blue-book recently presented to Parliament by the Harbour Department of the Admiralty.
The register is necessarily dry and bald.
From the number of columns (22)...
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The Trawler "Ben Screel" on the Rocks
THE Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches in the following places in the Welsh District and would be very grateful to any readers of The Lifeboat who could help it to do this, either personally or by putting it in touch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dell Quay Dory
Found in time THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 11, 1987 W3S bitterly cold, with temperatures falling to minus 10°C along the south coast.
In Poole Harbour a north-easterly wind created a chill factor of minus 15°C or more, so...
A Sponsored Swim Undertaken By Pupils of Winton Junior School Bournemouth In April Raised £432 Anthony Oliver Dos (South) Demonstrates a Line Throwing Apparatus to Some of the Children
A sponsored swim undertaken by pupils of Winton Junior School, Bournemouth in April raised £432.
Anthony Oliver, DOS (South) demonstrates a line throwing apparatus to some of the children at the school, while Mary... - View image in PDF
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Rnli news
Newspoint Technology and efficiency Technology moves on apace, and any organisation which seeks to stay effective and efficient must move with it.
Lifeboats are continually developing as new techniques and equipment become...
Category: Articles
Obituary: Derek Calderwood
Man of Grace dies Derek Calderwood, former honorary curator of the Grace Darling museum in Bamburgh and tireless fundraiser for the RNLI has died.
Derek, curator of the museum from 1984 until 1995, was responsible for the...
Category: Obituaries
Shikara II
Margate, Kent. At 12.40 early on the morning of the 9th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the coxswain that a vessel appeared to have broken down eight miles north-east of Margate. At 1.20 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No....
Bed Month Success
During national bed month, David Phipp house furnisher of Ferndown in Dorset, chose to support the RNLI by donating £10 for every bed purchased in March.
At the end of the promotion Ronny Spurr, treasurer of Ferndown... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs