LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 240, 255 and 274, the following launches on service were made during the months of June to August, 1966, inclusive: Aberdovey,...
Category: Services
The Register of Wrecks for 1863
THE Return of the Registrar-general of Seamen, recently published, shows that during the past year 413,972 vessels—representing a tonnage of nearly 62 millions— entered inwards and cleared outwards from British ports. The estimated value of...
Category: Articles
Above: Poster By Michael Downs Aged 14 of Carleton Skipton Yorks (11 Years and Over)
Above: Poster by Michael Downs, aged 14, of Carleton, Skipton, Yorks. - View image in PDF
(11 years and over); right: Poster by Stephen Coles, aged 9, of Billericay, Essex (8 to 10 years).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S.. Sabac and Dorington Court (1)
STEAMER AND MOTOR VESSEL IN COLLISION Dover, and Walmer, Kent. At 12.13 early on the morning of the 8th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the Dover honorary secretary that a collision had taken place between two vessels, the s.s. Sabac...
An Aeroplane (6)
JULY 3RD. - BEAUMARIS, AND HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. A wrecked aeroplane had been reported in the sea about twenty miles north of the Skerries, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : Beaumaris, £11 11s. 9d. ; Holyhead, £6 5s..
Pathfinder
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 2.17 on the morning of the 16th of July, 1957, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been seen six miles south- south-west of Portpatrick. At 2.30 the life-boat Edward Z. Dresden, on temporary duty at the...
The Empire's Help.
Every overseas mail since the war began has brought gifts to the Institution from somewhere in the Empire, unsolicited gifts from people on whom the war must be making the same heavy demands as it is making upon us all. Those gifts have come...
Category: Articles
The Annual General Meeting
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 30th of March, 1960, and presented medals for gallantry and other...
Category: Meetings
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
SOUTH BANK, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 17 1982: 1,281 people rescued; nearly £16 million raised NOT MANY spring or early summer days have been sunny this year, but Tuesday May 17, when RNLI people from all parts of England, Ireland, Scotland...
Category: Meetings