LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Book Reviews
• Published to coincide with the Institution's 150th Anniversary, The Life-boat Service by Oliver Warner (Cassell, London, £4.50) is the authoritative account of the RNLI. Mr Warner has had access to all of its papers, and has...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th May, 1864. 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 Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 14th June, 1900.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
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News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1938
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on 31st May. The amount raised was £6,397, an increase of £1,074 on 1937.
Presentation 'by Mr. Kenneth Lindsay, M.P.,...
Category: Branches
Trapped!
The steamer looks as if she were going on her way. In fact she is held fast by the sands.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Girl Carole, the Motor Yawl Vigilant and Fishing Boat May
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — Late in the afternoon of the 4th' of July, 1948, a sudden freak squall broke from the north and at 4.59 the coastguard telephoned that three small sailing yachts had capsized in the...
Aberystwyth Lifeboats By Joan Davies
BACK IN THE TIME of the Romans the dip in the cliffs where the River Rheidol and the River Ystwyth come down to Cardigan Bay was already recognised as an important landing place, to be guarded with an encampment. At such a favourable strand,...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th October, 1876: THOMAS CHAPMAN Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and...
Category: Committee
Hm Coastguard: the Lifeboatman's Link With the Shore By Geoffrey Pallet
Geoffrey Pallet, editor of Coastguard magazine, describes the service which acts as co-ordinator of all marine search and rescue around the shores of the United Kingdom. He also passes on some useful advice to visitors to the coast.'LATE...
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Some Ways of Raising Money
Witham and District branch, Essex, held its 1982 house to house collection in July. When the box of one of its supporters, Mr B. Tebbutt of Coggershall, was opened it was found to contain £75.30; that amount was made up on one £10...
Category: Articles