LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRB's in July were Carried out by the Following Stations
SOUTH WEST St. Ives, Cornwall - At 6.25 p.m. on 3rd July, 1967, news was received that a skin diver was missing near the Stones reef. The IRB was launched at 6.30 in a moderate westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. The...
Category: Services
Annual General Meeting
and presentation of awards FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, MAY 21A BRIGHT, sunny morning; friends from all parts of Britain and Ireland gathering on the South Bank of the Thames ready for the annual general meeting and presentation of awards in this...
Category: Meetings
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CAISTER, NORFOLK. — Signal - rockets were fired by the Wold Light-vessel on the morning of the 31st May last. The weather was squally, a strong breeze blowing from the KN.W., and there was a heavy sea. At 3 o'clock the No. 2 Life- boat...
Category: Services
The Problem of Ships' Life-Boats
SHIPS' BOATS : THEIR QUALITIES, CON- STRUCTION, EQUIPMENT AND LAUNCH- ING APPLIANCES. By Ernest W.
Blocksidge, M.I.N.A. (Longmans, Green & Co. 25.?. net.) Reviewed by FELIX RUBIE, M.I.N.A., Surveyor of...
Category: Articles
RNLI In Action
Cruise liner in crisis Six lifeboats launched on 6 May 2006 to the help of The Calypso (pictured). The 135m liner and 708 passengers were 15 miles south of Beachy Head, East Sussex, when fire broke out. Tyne classes MaxAitken III from...
Category: Articles
News and Views
The Annual Meetings The RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Annual Presentation of Awards for 1997 will again take place in the Barbican Hall, London.
The meetings will be held on Thursday 15 May, the AGM at 1130 and the...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 8th September, 1892.
Colonel FrrzRoY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre- spondence,...
Category: Committee
Our Shingle Beaches
THOSE of our readers who have visited the watering-places and the Life-boat Stations of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION on the south and south-east coasts of England cannot but have noticed with interest the vast quantity of shingle which...
Category: Articles
Annual Report. 1901
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Town Hall, Westminster, on Saturday, the 20th day of April, 1901, His Grace the DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G-., in the Chair, the following Report of the...
Category: Annual Reports
The Fundraisers
In brief A GENEROUS donation of £500 has been received from JAVA (the Jaguar. Alacrity, Vivacity Association) which is affiliated to the Royal Yachting Association.
AFTER Fort William and District branch invited the...
Category: Articles