LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THURSDAY, 12th January, 1911.

Colonel Sir FitzRoY CLAYTON, K.C.V.O..V.P., in the Chair.

Bead and confirmed the minutes of the three previous meetings.

Also read those of the Building,...

In Brief DURING 1993/94 Brian Davey, the box secretary of Frampton Cotterell branch collected an amazing £1,739.25 from collecting boxes placed in pubs, shops, railway stations and clubs.

THE 20th annual buffet dance...

UNTIL RECENT TIMES the approaches to the Port of Liverpool were quite hazardous. The difficulties stemmed from the fact that seaward of the northern extremity of the Wirral peninsula the estuary suddenly opens out to become very shallow for...

AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL SHIPWRECK INSTITUTION, held at the Offices of the Society, John Street, Adelphi, on Tuesday, the 11th day of April, 1854,, CAPTAIN SHEPHERD, H.C.S., Deputy Master of the Trinity House, VICE...

MUDEFORD, Hampshire, was on of the first stations to take an inshore life-boat in 1963.

It was operated on an experimental basis during the summer of that year. The boat was withdrawn for the winter and then Iudeford was...

WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—On the morn- ing of the 23rd December, 1886, signals of distress were observed about a mile distant from Winterton, during a strong N. gale aad a very heavy sea, shown by two vessels which had been in collision. The Win-...

ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 12 1980: 1,215 people rescued; nearly £12 million raisedTUESDAY MAY 12 was the day of the RNLI's 1981 annual general meeting of the governors and annual presentation of awards and, as usual...

Sweet Revenge Please allow me to have sweet revenge on my friend Mr Tony Pearce, who is the auxiliary in charge of St Davids coastguard station.

When I first took over as the honorary secretary of St Davids lifeboat station...