LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Royal National Life-boat Institu- tion has had only four secretaries during the 107 years of its existence. The first was Thomas Edwards, who served from 1824 to 1850. Richafd Lewis (1850 to 1883) and Charles Dibdin (1883 to 1910) were...

With the building of a 48 foot 6 inch steel-hulled life-boat the Royal National Life-boat Institution has introduced a new class of boat into the service. A life- boat of this type was shown to the press at Southampton on 17th July, 1969.<...

RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS.—At day- break, on the 28th March, during a strong north-easterly wind and in a heavy sea, a large barque was seen ashore on the Goodwin Sands with a signal of distress flying. The Life-boat Bradford and the harbour...

Assistant Chief Inspector of Life-boats A MODERN life-boat may cost as much as £36,500. The great bulk of the cost is, of course, that of the hull and machinery, but a modern life-boat also carries a variety of stores and equip- ment....

WHITBY.—The Whitby No. 2. Life-boat was rapidly becoming unfit for further ser- vice, and it has been replaced by another 8-oared boat, 30 feet long, and 7 feet -t inches wide, which was forwarded to the station, with a transporting-carriage...

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, by the kind permission of the Eight Honourable The LORD MAYOR of London, on Tuesday the 11th day of May, 1875, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE...

A NOTIFICATION appeared in the Gazette of the 13th March last, stating that the Queen had been pleased, by warrant under the royal sign-manual, to institute a new decoration, to be styled the Albert Medal, to be awarded in cases where it...

IN making his report on the past year's work of the life-boat service at the Institution's annual general meeting on the 30th of March, a meeting which is reported in full on page 436, Earl Howe, the Chairman of the Committee of...