LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Corporation of Trinity House
IN the Journal of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION it is fitting that there should appear a brief account of the history and functions of the Cor- poration of Trinity House, the General Lighthouse and Pilotage Authority for the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
WHITBY.—On the 1st October, at 4 P.M., the Life-boat Harriott Forteath was launched and put four of the crew of a Cornish fishing-boat, the Matchless, on board their vessel, which was riding at anchor near Whitby Rock, and was in great...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 9th June, 1910.
Colonel Sir Fitzroy CLAYTON, K.C.V.O..V.P., in the Chair.
Read a letter from His Majesty's Principal Secretary oi State for Home Affairs conveying His Majesty's thanks...
Category: Committee
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
MARCH No. 1 Life-boat Area Wick, Caithness - At 8.52 p.m. on 27th March, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler had grounded hard and fast on the Louther Skerries. At 9.10 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...
Category: Services
On the Afternoon of July 9 a Giant Wave Washed Three Boys Off Sterlochy Rocks Immediately East of Findochty Harbour Two Were Pulled to Safety By Uwe Brandt An Oil Rig Worker Who Waded M
On the afternoon of July 9 a giant wave washed three boys off Sterlochy Rocks immediately east of Findochty Harbour. Two were pulled to safety by Uwe Brandt, an oil rig worker, who waded more than waist deep into the rough seas. Buckle... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes on Building a Life-Boat
IN the last number of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL an account was given of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and it may now be of interest to give a few notes as to the way she is built.
For many years, indeed since 1899,...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 10th January, 1907.
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
Glencoe, Mistley, Cambria, Decima, Nelson,Verona and Houston City
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SOUTHEND - ON - SEA DECEMBER 6-11TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. The gale of the 5th of December, in which the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) had been out for five hours and had towed in a...
Brigadier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B.
BY the death last Christmas of Briga- dier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B., late of the Royal Engineers, at the age of 82, the Institution has lost a friend who for ten years gave it devoted service as a member of the Committee of Management....
Category: Obituaries