LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division 141 hour service in severe gale A MESSAGE FROM THE YACHT Coronade to the Sunk Pilot Cutter, saying that a red flare had been sighted southward, in the direction of the Long Sand, was intercepted by Walton Coastguard at 1621...
Category: Services
Stephen Whittle Coxswain of Dunmore East Lifeboat By Ray Kipling
DUNMORE EAST is a fishing port at the mouth of Waterford Harbour in southeastern Ireland, just off the busy shipping lanes leading from the Atlantic Ocean up St George's Channel and into the Irish Sea. The shore sweeps down to Hook Head...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, by the kind permission of the LORD MAYOR of London, on Thursday, the 28th of February, 1867, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.,...
Category: Annual Reports
Annual Report. 1884
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 15th day of March, 1884, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, KG., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CADGWITH, CORNWALL.—At midnight, on the 13th January, 1868, a light being observed on or near the Vrogue Rocks, in a strong wind from the W.S.W., and a heavy ground sea, the Western Commercial Traveller life-boat was despatched to as-...
Category: Services
Rnli News
Newspoint Top of the bill The November announcement by the Charities Aid Foundation that the RNLI was number one in the 1987 charities' 'top ten' is fitting recognition of the hard work put in by fund raisers throughout the...
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
The Society of Arts and Life-Saving Apparatus
THE "Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce," com- monly known as the " Society of Arts," as most of our readers will be aware, offers from time to time its Gold Medal to be competed for by...
Category: Articles
At the Sharp End
Short service iust 500 yards from station - but a surfer's life is saved Ashort but very difficult service by North Sunderland's D class inflatable lifeboat on 18 May 1996 undoubtedly saved the life of a surfer, and also led to the...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 14th January, 1904.
Sit EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee