LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 14th October, 1909.
Sir JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G., in the Chair.
Bead and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Search and Rescue at Sea
ALONG the top of the first page of the official instructions to H.M. Coast- guard the following words are written : " The swift emergencies of the sea call for prompt response ".
It is just that which has led to...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT STAYS WITH CASUALTY FOR MORE THAN EIGHT HOURS Help for disabled MFV in severe gale force winds Whitby's relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher was on service for some 12 hours on 3 April 1990 when three fishing vessels...
Category: Services
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things
Volunteers are very much at the heart of the RNLI. The charity's lifesaving service could not exist without their passion and relies on an army of willing helpers to go out in lifeboats, to fundraise, to promote safety and...
Category: Articles
Valentia
Fenit, Co. Kerry. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 27th August, 1961, one of the yachts competing in a regatta capsized. The two people on board, a man and a woman, clung to the sub- merged boat. A near gale was blowing from the south-west...
News and Views
The Beach Rescue tna scheme showed off its first ever beach lifeguards at two photocells on Friday 25 May.
Lifeguards were put through their paces at two locations - Fistral beach at Newquay in Cornwall and Sandbanks beach...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1920
Lives saved.
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Category: Services
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 12 1980: 1,215 people rescued; nearly £12 million raisedTUESDAY MAY 12 was the day of the RNLI's 1981 annual general meeting of the governors and annual presentation of awards and, as usual...
Category: Meetings
Your Letters
Storm Force Club Towards the end of last year, my branch started a Storm Force Club. This is not a group sharing corporate membership, but a club for youngsters who already have or who may be interested in having their own individual Storm...
Category: Correspondence
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