LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Big sick, little sick
The lifeboat volunteer, a teacher himself, wasn’t happy: ‘Nothing makes me more cross than giving up my time and having to suffer bad teaching. Now we’re to be guinea pigs for some new first aid training …’
In 2007, John...
Category: Articles
Second Coxswain Keith Bower Torbay: 'When We Got Down Off the Shore a Little Bit We "Tacked" Putting the Wind First on One Bow and Then on the Other'
Second Coxswain Keith Bower, Torbay: 'When we got down off the shore a little bit we "tacked", putting the wind first on one bow and then on the other'.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fundraisers
FORTHCOMING EVENTS We regret that we are unable to include notices of forthcoming events in THE LIFEBOAT as the number involved would soon swamp the journal. We endeavour to report as many fundraising events as possible after they have taken...
Category: Articles
Four Life-Boats Searched for Survivors In the North Sea When the Oil Drilling Rig Sea Gem Collapsed on Boxing Day With the Loss of Eight Lives
Four life-boats searched for survivors in the North Sea when the oil drilling rig Sea Gem collapsed on Boxing Day with the loss of eight lives. Here one of the lifeboats is standing by at the buoyed wreck. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Before the Crowds Assembled: View Across the Harbour to the Lifeboat House and Slipway. on Show Were The* Whitby Pulling Lifeboat, Robert and Ellen Robson, Ait Atlan
Before the crowds assembled: view across the harbour to the lifeboat house and slipway. On show were the* Whitby pulling lifeboat, Robert and Ellen Robson, ait Atlantic 21 and a D class 1LB.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 3rd August, 1865, THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Reform of the Mercantile Marine
A VERY remarkable change in public opinion on the subject of the British mercantile marine has been wrought within the last few years; and none of the current topics of the day engross so large a share of the grave interest of reformers,...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 8th October, 1903.
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
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 4th October, 1877: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspon- dence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 14th June, 1900.
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