LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Annual Meeting
THE hundred and fifteenth annual meeting of the Governors of the In- stitution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, 26th April. Over 2,500 people were present.
H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.,...
Category: Meetings
Past and Present
Years Ago The following article appeared in the March, 1937 issue of THE LIFEBOAT: Fifty-two Lives Rescued.
A Bronze-Medal Service at Torbay.
Early in the morning of 23rd January the 4,000-ton steamer...
Category: Articles
The Equipment of a Life-Boat. (Continued.)
The Sails of a Life-boat are of No. 5 or No. 6 canvas, made from the finest flax, and tanned with bark to render them rot-proof. They are now all cut with a very high peak, and consist in most cases of a jib and standing fore and mizen lugs,...
Category: Articles
An Indian Applicant
THE Institution has had a letter from a consulting engineer in Travancore- Cochin, India, asking to be told how he "can get selected as a life-boatman in the Royal National Life-boat Insti- tution in England." He is, he says, a ...
Category: Correspondence
Meetings of Committee
Thursday, 4th March, 1852. THOMAS WILSON, Esq., in the Chair.
Confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting, and of the Finance, Wreck, and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read letter from the Local Committee at...
Category: Committee
An Aircraft
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—22nd September, 1938. The police reported that an aircraft had come down in the sea.
The life-boat found an oil patch and dragged with grappling irons for a sunken aeroplane, but could find...
At Yeovilton Air Day
At Yeovilton Air Day last August, John King (r) chairman of Yeovil branch, put on display the working scale model which he had made himself of Poole's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Augustine Courtauld. The model, used for fund raising, had that... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane
Barmouth, Merionethshire. •—• About half-past ten in the morning of the 29th.
of July, 1949, information was received from the R.A.F. at Valley, Anglesey, and from the Fishguard coastguard that an aeroplane had come down in...
Mrs Ann Banner Mbe,
Mrs Ann Banner MBE, founder chairman of Billingham ladies guild.
Appointed chairman in 1980, she took over the dual role of chairman/treasurer in 1990. When the guild closed in 1996 Mrs Banner supported the Tees Endeavour...
Category: Obituaries