LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 6th April, 1865. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., r.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Category: Committee
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
A Year of Endeavour
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the RNLI, brandies and guilds were asked to make some special fund raising effort to help raise the six million pounds needed for the vast boat building programme on which the Institution has embarked...
Category: Donations
The Lifting Barge Eileen Dubv E.
Escort for barge with dangerous list Holyhead's relief Tyne class Voluntary Worker was called on to stand by when the cargo aboard the 40m lifting barge Eileen Dubv E shifted in a Force 6 WNW wind and moderate to rough seas some seven...
Lowesloft: When on August 30 Lowestoft Lifeboat Went to the Help Oj Jolie Brise Returning from Oslo to Harwich on the Second Leg of the 1978 Tall Ships Race It Was
Lowesloft: When on August 30 Lowestoft lifeboat went to the help oj Jolie Brise, returning from Oslo to Harwich on the second leg of the 1978 Tall Ships Race, it was Thomas Knott's last service as coxswain . . . photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th January, 1888.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
Category: Committee
An Aeroplane (18)
MAY 16TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £7 10s..
A Fishing Boat (18)
NOVEMBER 6TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. A fishing boat had gone ashore, but she was refloated by small boats when the tide rose. - No rewards desired by the lifeboat crew..
An Aeroplane (18)
MAY 23RD. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
An aeroplane which had left Belfast at 10.40 A.M. was reported to be overdue, and an unidentified object had been seen about a mile west of Rossall Shooting Range, but nothing was found. -...
An Aeroplane (17)
SEPT . 4TH. - HELVICK HEAD, CO.
WATERFORD. What looked like a burning aeroplane was reported to have been seen to drop into the sea, but nothing was found.- No rewards ; launch treated as exercise.