LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
IN making his report on the past year's work of the life-boat service at the Institution's annual general meeting on the 30th of March, a meeting which is reported in full on page 436, Earl Howe, the Chairman of the Committee of...
Category: Articles
Chairman Praises All for Their Efforts
CAPTAIN the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the Committee of Management, told the annual meeting of the In- stitution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 2ist March, 1967, that, in spite of efforts all round, receipts did not meet...
Category: Meetings
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 6.—The 41-Feet Beach (Aldeburgh) Type
WHEN the Institution designed two new types of motor life-boat (as described in previous issues of The Life- boat) sufficiently light to be launched off a carriage or the open beach it became possible to use motor power at a large number of...
Category: Articles
No Picnic
Amazingly, Poole lifeboats hadn’t been called out for a month, belying our status as one of the busiest coastal stations, but on Sunday 28 October at 10.59am, my pager broke its silence. Spurred into action, I knew that it could be something...
Category: Articles
Tryst
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 9th of August, 1952, the life-boat mechanic reported that a small sailing yacht appeared to be anchored a quarter of a mile to the east of the harbour entrance and was making signals...
News and Views
Minehead's new D class lifeboat, George and Christine, was named during a ceremony held outside the boathouse on 10 October 1999.
The new lifeboat, funded by George Stnbling of Axminster, replaced the previous D class...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PENMON.—On the 6th January, 1897, the schooner Volunteer, of Dublin, laden with cement and matches, from London for Whitehaven, was observed aground on the rocks off Penmon, having dragged her anchors. A strong gale was blowing from the S.E....
Category: Services
Naming Ceremonies: Ireland. Kilmore and Hovvth
Two new motor life-boats have been sent to the Irish coast this year: Kil- more, County Wexford, and Howth, County Dublin.
Kilmore, County Wexford.
The new motor life-boat at Kilmore has replaced a pulling...
Category: Inaugurations
To Five Vessels In One Day. Bronze Medal to the Southend-On-Sea Coxswain
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 139 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 25 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1938 - - - - 65,989 To Five Vessels in One...
Category: Services
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