LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the September and October Meetings of.the Committee of Management.
Torbay, Devon.—At about 10 P.M. on the 15th May, Miss Patience Trout, of Hallsands, saw, by telescope, signals of distress...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 8th February, 1912.
The Right Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of -the Building, Finance...
Category: Committee
Well Dressed:
Well dressed: the Derbyshire custom of well dressing is alive and well in Monyash, near Bakewell. This lifeboat theme was discovered by reader, Ernest Bidwell, who also spotted a collecting box in aid of the RNLI nearby. The designs which... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Great Services Which Were Rendered By the Life-Boats to the Allied Cause During the War Have Been Referred to In Previous Numbers of The Life-Boat
'T'HE great services which were rendered by the Life-boats to the Allied cause during the War have been referred to in precious numbers of THE LIFE-BOAT. The full list of the services in the last year of the War, during which rewards...
Category: Services
The Centenary: In Scotland
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Aberdeen.
Aberdeen held a Centenary Meeting on 23rd January, at which Lord Provost Meff presided, and the Marquess of Aber- deen and Temair, K.T., a Vice-President of the Institution,...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Life-boat stationed in 1868 at Boss Links, Holy Island, has recently been replaced by a new one, 31 feet long, 7£ feet wide and towing 10 oars, double banked. It possesses all the latest improvements, as...
Category: Articles
Letters (Continued from Page 65)
where she had 53 service launches at 16 stations and rescued a further 19 lives. She was one of the 19 lifeboats that went to Dunkirk in 1940.
Getting back to the sponsored marathon row, on the way down the River Thames,...
Category: Correspondence
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—On the morn- ing of the 23rd December, 1886, signals of distress were observed about a mile distant from Winterton, during a strong N. gale aad a very heavy sea, shown by two vessels which had been in collision. The Win-...
Category: Services
Steve Atkinson (pictured above)
Steve Atkinson (pictured above) has been equally willing in his training. A tractor driver at New Quay lifeboat station, Cardiganshire, he moved to Burnham for work and was accepted as a lifeboat shore helper in 2003. However, when he... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The First of the Atlantic 21S,
The first of the Atlantic 21s, and the forerunner of all rigid inflatables now widely used for commercial and leisure purposes.
Developed at Atlantic College and using a rigid buoyant floor surrounded by a continuous... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs