LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yachts
On the 2nd of September, 1951, the Margate life-boat towed in a yacht and her crew of two and rescued two more from another yacht. For a full account of these services, and the rewards, see page 282..
Fishing Trawlers, an Admiralty Trawler and a Steamer (1)
JANUARY 12TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. Fishing trawlers, an Admiralty trawler, and a steamer had been bombed and machine-gunned, but all were able to go on their way except a fishing trawler which another vessel towed into...
Diesel Engines In Life-Boats
THE problem of finding the ideal method of providing a life-boat with mechanical power has occupied the minds of de- signers and engineers for more than a century. For many years experiments were made with steam. At the Great Exhibition of...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 13th October, 1910.
Colonel Sir FitzRoY CLAYTON, K.C.V.O..V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance...
Category: Committee
Dispatches
Dispatches ’Twas the season … Thousands of RNLI volunteers around the UK and Republic of Ireland were on call over the recent holiday period. It’s too early for 2006 statistics, but from Christmas Eve 2005 to 2 January 2006 volunteer...
Category: Articles
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 4
THE years 1850-1, next to the year 1785, were those of the greatest importance in the history of the Coast Life-boat, and in fact of- the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION also, for, as has often been pointed out, apathy in the Life-boat...
Category: Articles
People and Places
Gary makes a meal of it! When TV superchef Gary Rhodes was in search of an original culinary challenge for his latest television series, Alderney lifeboat crew cooked up a great idea. Having often enjoyed the hospitality of CROSSMA - the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
GOBLESTON. — On the 1st January, 1895, the steamers Sent, of London, and Kirkstall, of Shields, which had been detained in the roadstead by stress of weather, ran short of provisions and each sent a boat ashore to obtain supplies. A moderate...
Category: Services
News from the Branches. 1st January to 31st March
1st January to 31st March.
Greater London.
BATTERSEA.—Concert by the Junior Imperial League, with address by Mr. Rham, Honorary Secretary of the Branch. Address to the Rotary Club by the District...
Category: Branches
Improved Liquid Boat Compass and Binnacle of the National Life-Boat Institution
IN a former Number of this Journal we published a description, with illustrations, of this valuable little instrument. Subsequently, in 1867, the Committee of the Institution presented to J. MACGREGOR, Esq., the founder of the " Canoe...
Category: Articles