LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 14th January, 1915.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read the minutes of the Building,...
Category: Committee
Life-Boat Sevices
FOUR BOATS AND CREWS SAVED IN deteriorating weather conditions on 8th November, 1971, the 70-foot steel life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, stationed at Kirkwall, Orkney, went to the aid of the Danish fishing vessel Clupea which had broken...
Category: Services
Llfeboat Services
South Eastern Division Twenty rescued CAPE COAST, a 2,650 ton Panamanian cargo vessel, broadcast on Channel 16 VHP at 0327 on Wednesday January 10 that she was in distress and taking water in her engine room; she was 2.2 miles from Nab Tower...
Category: Services
Frederica
On the 2nd November, when the dense thickness which had prevailed during the early part of the morning cleared, a steamer was observed ashore on the Button rocks. The Life-boat was very promptly launched and found the vessel was the...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ABERYSTWITH.—A new 34-feet, 10- oared Life-boat has been forwarded to this well-known Welsh watering-place, its cost having been defrayed from a hand- some legacy bequeathed to the Institution, through its Manchester Branch, by the late Mr....
Category: Articles
Poole Ladies' Guild Started Its Tenth Year With An Exhibition of Crafts at Which There Were Demonstrations Ranging from the Making of Dorset Buttons < 13-Year-Old David
Poole ladies' guild started its tenth year with an exhibition of crafts at which there were demonstrations ranging from the making of Dorset buttons 13-year-old David Johns), to enamel craft I Mrs Renate Wadham). Peter Fallon shows his... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat (1)
MARCH 8TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
The Gourdon coastguard reported a small boat adrift off Johns-haven, and at 11.10 A.M.. the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched. A light southerly wind was blowing, but there...
News and Views
HM The Queen Mother's 100th birthday paradethought it was a wonderful day I was delighted to be involved ' Peter Woolhouse, Volunteer Fundraiser Lifeboatmen and women from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland helped to make...
Category: Articles
March
MARCH Launches 63. Lives rescued 75.
MARCH 3RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At about 5 P.M. an army officer and two non-commissioned officers launched an old boat, intending to punt in shallow water. They...
Category: Services
Naming Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Exmouth, Devon; Fenit (Tralee Bay), Co. Kerry; Dungeness, Kent; Longhope, Orkneys.
THE Exmouth naming ceremony was held on 29th August in the presence of nearly 8,000 people. Among those taking part in the ceremony were...
Category: Inaugurations