LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 15th June, 1923.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Elected His Grace the DUKE OF ATHOLL, K.T., a Vice-President of the Institution.
Decided that the House of the...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY., 1st Jan., 1874: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., F.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the. Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspon- dence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 4fh January, 1872. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
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The Norwegian Life-Boat Service
By Mr. OTTAR VOGT, Secretary of the Norwegian Society for the Rescue of the Shipwrecked.
THE coast of Norway is very extensive and mountainous, rocky and precipitous all over — the whole coastline being guarded by a fence...
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Books
• John Kennedy served as honorary secretary at the Lytham lifeboat station from 1951 to 1976 and from this position he was able to observe every facet of the life of the station. He has now put pen to paper and the result is one of the most...
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Lifeboat Services
Creyv board boat face danger and tragedy inside cave on Atlantic coast The crew of the Arun stationed at Ballyglass on the exposed north west coast of Ireland faced unusual dangers last October when the lifeboat and her Y-Boat were involved...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ILFRACOMBE, NORTH DEVON.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a life-boat establishment at Ilfracombe, where there had at one time been a life-boat station under local management, which, however, it had*been found necessary...
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Lifeboat Services
INJURED SEAMAN LANDED IN SEVERE GALE AND COMPLETE DARKNESS Force 9 gale and snow squalls hinder Atlantic 21 rescue in The WashHelmsman Alan Clarke of Hunstanton lifeboat has been awarded a bar to his Bronze medal for a service in the...
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The Woods of Which a Life-Boat Is Made
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 45 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1935 - ... 64,350 The Woods of which a Life-boat is...
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The Lifeboat Service In Two World Wars
THE Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which depends entirely on voluntary contributions, was founded in 1824 and has now saved over 98,500 lives in peace and war. Sir William Hillary, the founder, built the lifeboat service on sound...
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