LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th October, 1886.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious Meeting. Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
Three Skin-Divers Who Went Into the Sea at Thornwick Bay, Flamborough Were Soon In Trouble on 18th September, 1966, and Had to Be Rescued
Three skin-divers who went into the sea at Thornwick Bay, Flamborough, were soon in trouble on 18th September, 1966, and had to be rescued. Here one of them is being hauled from rocks to the Flamborough life-boat. Assistance was also given... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Robert Burgon, Ex-Coxswain at Berwick-on-Tweed
Robert Burgon, at one time Coxswain of the Berwick-on-Tweed Station, was drowned, on the morning of 24th March, with two other men in a motor fishingboat which was swamped by heavy seas and sank when crossing the bar on their way home. Born...
Category: Obituaries
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1858
Is accordance with our custom for some years past, we present some facts connected with the Wreck Register and Chart, prepared annually by the Board of Trade for presentation to Parliament.
It is, as usual, a...
Category: Articles
Lucy Jane
On the 13th November the fishing-boat Lucy Jane, which had been out fishing for herrings, got into difficulties when about three miles from Clovelly and was in danger of being swamped. The Life-boat Elinor Boget was launched and suc- ceeded...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 8th January, 1914.
Sir JOHN CAMERON LAMB, G.B., C.M.G., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read the minutes of the Building, Finance...
Category: Committee
North Cornwall Visit of the Duke of Kent President of the Institution to Five Stations In North Cornwall
Five lifeboat stations in North Cornwall were visited on June 27 by our president, HRH The Duke of Kent. Such great interest did His Royal Highness take in all he was shown and in all the lifeboat people he met—crew members and their wives,...
Category: Articles
Receipts and Payments—1st Jan. To 31st Dec., 1956
177,238 269 31,696 9,716 41,106 12,253 1,913 2.895 58,167 2,832 55~335 4,180 12,580 995 452 2,832 21,039 18,763 27,073 26 45,862 42,263 10,376 44,092 851 798 56,117 22,177 4,315 267 26.759 10,656 806 102,807 8,338 4,771 7,188 1,840 136,406...
Category: Accounts
Coxswain Swan's Broadcast Appeal. A Response of Over £750
A Response of over £750.
ON Sunday, 2nd March, through the kindness of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Institution was allowed to make a three-minute appeal as " the week's good cause." This...
Category: Articles
Books
• A leading maritime historian, Dr John de Courcy Ireland has lectured on maritime history in more than 20 countries in four continents; he is research officer of both the Irish Commission on Maritime History, which he established, and the...
Category: Articles