LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Thursday, 9th January, 1908.

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...

MAST CARRIED AWAY At 1.23 p.m. on iyth August, 1964, while the inshore rescue boat was being rehoused after a service call, the honorary tecretary noticed that a Redwing yacht was in difficulties off St. Helen's Fort, and that her mast...

No doubt most readers of The Lifeboat possess a copy of Britain's Life-boats, by Major A. J. Dawson. They will find in Appendix A in that book a list of the works of Sir William Hillary, whose Appeal to the British Nation, published in...

TO MARK THE FRIENDSHIP and mutual goodwill shown during the bicentennial celebrations of the American Declaration of Independence a number of leading Americans in Britain have decided to appeal to their fellow citizens to provide a new...

DURING the years 1963 to 1969 inclusive the Institution opened no fewer than 49 new stations and closed 11. These contrasting figures are evidence of the way in which the R.N.L.I. has been coping with the increasing demands...

There was a buzz in the Barbican on 19 May 2005 as RNLI Governors, crew, fundraisers and other supporters gathered for a day of reflection and celebration RNLI core supporters came from all corners of the UK and the Republic of Ireland to...

Douglas Bay as Sir William Hillary would have known it: 1823 print shows St Mary's Rock before Tower of Refuge was built.

by courtesy of the Manx Museum.

THE problem of establishing communi- cation between the Life-boat and the Lifevessel in distress has for many years occupied the attention of the technical officers of the Institution. Up to the present the only device has been the Cane...