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
This number of The Lifeboat is really the June number. It was almost ready to be printed when, towards the end of June, afire at the works of the Whitefriars Press, Tonbridge, destroyed nearly the whole of the type. The Committee of...
Category: Meetings
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services A variety of services from around the country The Annual Meetings '99 The Chairman reports on a very successful year and the nationwide launch of SEA Check, plus...
Category: Contents
My husband and I had a rather unusual experience on 7 August. We were enjoying a really good break, staying at the RNLI’s college in Poole for 3 nights. (Your accommodation is excellent and the food delectable!) On our last morning we walked...
Category: Articles
THE new motor life-boat at Llandudno which has replaced a pulling and sailing life-boat, was formally inaugurated on 28th September. She is a Welsh gift, having been built out of legacies received from the late Dr. Thomas Richards, of...
Category: Inaugurations
About 10.45 on the night of Thursday, the 19th of December, 1957, the lights of a vessel passing between the two Saltee islands off the Wexford coast were seen from Kilmore Quay.
It was a wild night, and as the coast is a...
Category: Services
THE AMERICAN obsession with health and physical fitness has spread, to a certain degree, to this country in recent years, resulting in the popularity of jogging as a sport for growing numbers of people.
Members of...
Category: Articles
what it would take to get Carol into a flap! If you would like to start covenanting your subscriptions you may do so at any time by indicating this on your next correspondence. We shall then be happy to forward to you the necessary form.<...
Category: Articles
Five calls WHEN, ON THE, AFTERNOON of Saturday September 17, 1983, the 35ft MFV Arctic Solatair picked up a floating rope around her propeller and went ashore at Skinningrove, about six miles south of Redcar, Tees Coastguard telelphoned the...
Propeller fouled AT 1050 on -Monday June 25, 1984, Pentland Coastguard contacted Wick lifeboat station's deputy launching authority with the news that a salmon coble was in difficulties off Ackergill. At 1100 the relief 48ft 6in Solent...