LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th Jan., 1871: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com- mittees. The...
Category: Committee
Notes of the Quarter
In 1965 the life-boat service had by far its busiest year since the Institution was founded in 1824. There were 1,038 launches by life-boats on service and 462 by inshore rescue boats. Life-boats saved the lives of 562 people and IRBs...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Three sailors in a Life-boat, — one of whom is in the act of rescuing an exhausted mariner from the waves ; inscription, " Let not the deep swallow me up." THIS Medal appeal's to have been one of the chef d'osuvres of the...
Category: Medals
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 1st August. Captain Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 15th June, 1923.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Elected His Grace the DUKE OF ATHOLL, K.T., a Vice-President of the Institution.
Decided that the House of the...
Category: Committee
The Norwegian Liner Braemar, of Oslo
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 9 p.m. on 20th October, 1966, the honorary secretary intercepted a radio message from the Norwegian liner Braemar, of Oslo, requesting that a helicopter take off a sick man. The coastguard, however, was unable...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—Intelligence having been received that a vessel was in distress about three miles 8. of Mang- hold Head, during a S.E. wind on the 5th Oct. 1886, the Life-boat Two Sisters was launched at about 8.30 A.M., and was towed...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th May, 1859. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, Dec. 6, 1855. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.' Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read and...
Category: Committee
Irish Girl, of Dundalk
CLOGHER HEAD, Co. LOUTH.—While about sixteen open yawls were fishing off Clogher Head on the morning of the 24th January, a gale sprung up very suddenly from W.N.W., and the coxswain of the Life-boat, who was watching the fleet, saw that...