LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
CARDIGAN.—In the early morning of the 16th March, while a strong gale was blowing, signals of distress were seen from a ketch in Cardigan Bay.
The Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Clare was promptly launched and went to...
Category: Articles
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 13th October, 1904.
Sir 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
Recent Services: The Lizard and Stromness
LAST February was one of the stormiest Februaries on record. During the month there were over fifty launches on service, and nearly forty lives were saved. The two services, however, which most deserve to be recorded are two, both by Motor...
Category: Services
Some Ways of Raising Money
More than £12,000 was raised by Bristol ladies' guild at its summer ball, held last July at the home of Mr and Mrs Cullum McAlpine, near Bath. On arrival, every lady was presented with a red rose, and when the 350 guests sat down to...
Category: Articles
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 17th January, 1929.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Decided to forward to the South Holland Life-boat Society a message expressing regret and sympathy in connexion with the loss of the...
Category: Committee
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 17th day of March, 1859, The Right Hon. SIR JOHN S. PAKINGTON, Bart., First Lord of the Admiralty, in the Chair, The following...
Category: Annual Reports
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
LINCOLNSHIRE.—The Lincolnshire Shipwreck Society—the last remaining of the County Shipwreck Associations — having been brought into union with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the latter has completely renovated the four life-boat...
Category: Articles
Nicholas Schrager Who Owns the Victorian Thames Motorboat Duchess Doreen and Who Uses Her As a Floating Restaurant Offered His Craft and Cuisine to Molesey Branch for One Evening By Raf
Nicholas Schrager, who owns the Victorian Thames motorboat Duchess Doreen and who uses her as a floating restaurant, offered his craft and cuisine to Molesey branch for one evening. By raffling the 12 places available £270 was earned... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Twelve Days of Gales at Aberdeen. Award of the Silver Medal
Award of the Silver Medal.
DURING the twelve days from the 21st January to the 1st February. 1937 the worst gales within living memory blew at Aberdeen, and the south break- water of the harbour was washed...
Category: Services
Nuncio
NEW BBIGHTON.—The steam-tug Hover came to the New Brighton stage at about 6 P.M. on the 5th October for the Lifeboat, as there was a ship in distress on the Little Burbo Bank. The Stuart Hay Life-boat was at once manned, taken in tow by the...