LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"House to House" Collections: A Suggestion for the Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
By a Life-boat Worker of Twenty-five Years' Experience.
Now that the Ladies' Life-boat Guild has been formed and many new members are being enrolled who are not yet acquainted with the methods which the...
Category: Donations
Daily Express
DAILY EXPRESS I N T E R N A T O N A 23rd 1989 *? ' -a* Following its highly successful debut ID Plymouth, the Daily Express West of England Boat Show has moved lo the Bristol Exhibition Centre in order (o expand the market for...
Category: Advertisement
A Canoe
Cromer, Norfolk.—2nd August, 1938.
A bather had got into difficulties at Walcot Gap, and two men who had put out in a canoe were lost and the bather had been saved before the life-boat could reach them.—Rewards, £9 Is....
A Skiff
MAY 4TH. SELSEY, SUSSEX. A skiff had been seen signalling for help off Hayling Island, but she was towed into Chichester harbour by a motor boat. - Rewards, £11 4s. 6d. (See Hayling Island, “Services by Shore-boats,” page 73.).
Retirement of Mr. A. C. Butcher
AT the end of 1949, Mr. A. C. Butcher, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.Mar.E., the superin- tendent engineer, retired from the Institution on reaching the retiring age.
He had then been with it for over twenty-eight years. He joined its...
Category: Committee
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED 1824 SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRONESS.
HER...
Category: Advertisement
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 2nd Jan., 1873: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and "Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
The Admiralty Drifter No. 634
JANUARY 10TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
Shortly after six in the evening the coastguard reported a vessel firing lights and signalling SOS at the entrance to Wells harbour. A strong north-by-west wind was blowing with a heavy swell...
A Dinghy
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 5.45 on the morning of the 27th of July, 1952, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a dinghy was drifting one and a half miles south-south-east of Portland Bill, and at 6.0 the life-boat William and Clara Kyland...