LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sea-Coroner Suggested
An attentive consideration of the wreck chart appended to the Northumberland Report, and a careful examination of the returns of wrecks by the Coast-Guard officers, forcibly impresses on the mind the painful conviction that the greater part...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
In her presidential address at the Institution's annual general meeting on 21st March, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, called attention to the remark- able changes which have taken place during her presidency.
It was...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 20th of March, 1953, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent...
Category: Meetings
Lifeboat Services
ON THURSDAY April 8, the honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station was down at the boathouse in the late afternoon when, at 1628, he saw a 16ft sailing dinghy leave harbour with two young men and two youths on...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, l11th April, 1912.
The Bight Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., was unanimously elected Chairman and SIR JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution...
Category: Committee
New Life-Boats
ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK. — It will be remembered by our readers that in a former number of the Life-boat Journal (207), we mentioned that the boat on this station had been replaced by a new Life-boat of the " Norfolk and Suffolk" type...
Category: Inaugurations
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 4
THE years 1850-1, next to the year 1785, were those of the greatest importance in the history of the Coast Life-boat, and in fact of- the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION also, for, as has often been pointed out, apathy in the Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, by the kind permission of the Eight Honourable The LORD MAYOR of London, on Monday, the 8th clay of April, 1872, CAPTAIN His ROYAL HIGHNESS...
Category: Annual Reports
Services of the Life-Boats In October, November and December, 1953. 85 Lives Rescued
OCTOBER DURING October life-boats were launched 42 times and rescued 16 lives.
DOCTOR TAKEN TO SHETLAND ISLAND Aith, Shetlands.—At 2.35 on the after- noon of the 2nd of October, 1953, the doctor at...
Category: Services
Letters
ALL SPICK AND SPAN • I should like to record my appreciation and thanks for THE LIFE-BOAT which reaches me from time to time. It is full of interest and having absorbed the contents I circulate it around my ship.
It is...
Category: Correspondence