LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Going Alongside and Survivor Recovery
WHEN A LIFEBOAT reaches a vessel in distress in gale or storm force winds she has come to the heart of her problem; how best the people on board may be brought safely to shore. Can she go alongside and take off the survivors. Or is there a...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 13th December, 1894.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Bead and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
Category: Committee
The Centenary Meeting
The CHAIRMAN : Your Royal Highness, my Lords, ladies and gentlemen, to-day is the hundredth birthday of our Life-boat Service.
That is the historic event which we have met here to celebrate.
It is, and...
Category: Meetings
Lifeboat Services
West Division January storm BRONZE MEDALS AT 1137 ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1988 the Blackpool station honorary secretary, Mr Rowland Darbyshire was alerted by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that a small vessel had fired red flares 11/4 miles...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 2nd Jan., 1873: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and "Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
Towing Lines. a Discussion
Towing was an appropriate topic of conversation between this year's medal winning coxswains and Cdr George Cooper, the RNLl's deputy chief of operations. In three out of the four services recognised the casualty was towed to safety...
Category: Articles
International Conference on the World's Life-Boat Service
The Presentation of Gold Medals and Addresses of Congratulation to the Institution.
AN International Conference on the World's Life-boat Service was held, in connexion with the Centenary of the Institution, on 1st and...
Category: Meetings
Lifeboat Services
East Division Among sandbanks AT 1621 on Sunday March 31, 1985, a coastguard auxiliary from Brancaster reported to his Great Yarmouth coordination centre that he had a board sailor in sight who was in trouble. He was lying on his board,...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PALLING, NORFOLK.—About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne....
Category: Services
The Life-boats of Ramsgate and Margate at Dunkirk
EVACUATION OF MEN OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE AND THE FRENCH ARMY FROM DUNKIRK.* THE WORK OF THE LIFE-BOATS OF RAMSGATE AND MARGATE.
At 1.15 in the afternoon of Thursday, the 30th of May, 1940, the Ministry of...