LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Meetings of Committee
llth Nov. GEORGE PALMER, Esq., V.P,, in the Chair.
CONFIRMED Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Ordered the sale of 2001. Exchequer Bills, to...
Category: Committee
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Sporting Appeal
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION SPORTING APPEAL Distinctive trophies are available to sporting clubs wishing to raise funds for the Institution by organising competitions anywhere in Great Britain and Ireland.
For full...
Category: Advertisement
The Little Tin Lifeboat Grace Darling
The little tin lifeboat Grace Darling.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Helmsman Frank Dunster of Hayling Island
Helmsman Frank Dunster of Hayling Island. He joined the lifeboat crew in August 1974 having previously been connected with the Hayling Island Sea Rescue and Research Organisation. Frank was awarded a chairman's letter in 1978, a bronze... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824.
Incorporated 1860. Victoria, Patroness."...
Category: Medals
Fluminense, of London
NOVEMBER 10TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 9.3 in the morning the Sandgate coastguard reported a motor yacht in distress two and a half miles south-south-west of Dungeness Lighthouse. A fresh north-easterly breeze was blowing,...
Johs. Stove
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 12.30 early on the morning of the 23rd of Decem- ber, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tanker Johs. Stove of Oslo wanted to land a sick man and that her estimated time of arrival off...
Queen Victoria, of Brixham
On the 27th October, 1867, during a strong gale of wind, the Florence life-boat put off, in reply to signals of distress from the smack Queen Victoria, of Brixham, which was dismasted off St. Govin's Head, and, with the assist- ance of a...
Stormy Stan Drums Up Interest for the Lifeboats of the Clyde Appeal With a Tempting Supply of Biscuits
Stormy Stan drums up interest for the Lifeboats of the Clyde appeal with a tempting supply of biscuits. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Vessel
SEVEN LIFE-BOATMEN LOST AT ST. IVES JAN. 23RD. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
Three minutes before two in the morning, the honorary secretary was rung up by the district officer of coastguard, who told him that a vessel was in a...