LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Annual Meetings
The Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards 1993 Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe Tuesday after the May Day Bank Holiday, 4 May 1993, saw the Institution's 169th Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards. Although held at...
Category: Meetings
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WALTON-ON-NAZE, ESSEX.—At 9.30 A.M. on the 26th Feb., 1904, a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse stating that a vessel was aground on the sands. The crew and helpers of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 were at once...
Category: Services
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 13th October, 1904.
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
Shore Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1889
Jan. 6.—Three men put off in a boat and saved a boy who had fallen overboard from a boat off Wexford, Ireland.—Reward, 15s.
Jan. 9.—Four men. put off in a coble and saved the crew of five men from the boat of the steamer...
Category: Articles
The Arun and Fab 3 (Left)
Almost every aspect of boat design is linked. A larger lifeboat, like the Arun or new FAB prototypes, needs a cut-away section amidships to bring the deck close enough to the water to recover survivors. This cut-away section removes volume... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 2nd April, 1914.
The rt. 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
Lifeboat Services
Creyv board boat face danger and tragedy inside cave on Atlantic coast The crew of the Arun stationed at Ballyglass on the exposed north west coast of Ireland faced unusual dangers last October when the lifeboat and her Y-Boat were involved...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter
A NUMBER of important developments took pJace during the late summer of 1963 in the process, which is a con- tinuous and unending one, of moderniz- ing and improving the life-boat fleet.
A decision was taken to install...
Category: Articles
Early History of the Sliding-Keel
IT is very difficult to ascertain with any degree of exactitude when sliding or drop-keels first came into use. In the third volume of " An History of Marine Architecture," by John Charnock, F.S.A., published in 1802, there is a...
Category: Articles
BUSY YEAR FOR COASTGUARDS
A record number of 2,878 people were rescued as a result of action by H.M.
Coastguards in the 12 months ending 31st March, 1969. This was 379 more than in the previous 12 months. Coastguards took part in 2,444 rescue...
Category: Articles