LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Honorary Life Governors Three honorary life governors have been appointed in recognition of their services to the Institution. At the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution on yth April, 1964, each was presented wth a...

Saved from drowning A 71-YEAR-OLD MAN was out fishing alone in his 9ft wooden dinghy on the afternoon of Monday September 9, 1985.

The weather was fair, there was a moderate south-south-westerly breeze, force 4, with a...

Boarding boat rescue from saltings REQUESTING THE LAUNCHING of Calshot lifeboat at 2207 on Thursday, January 29, HM Coastguard told the honorary secretary that at 2054 a red flare had been reported in Ashlett Creek and. in view of the very...

The s.s. Har- lington, of London, belonging to the P. and O. Company, stranded on the Gunfleet Sands, whilst bound from Middlesbrough to London laden with iron, on the 2nd December. At 2.30 P.M.

the...

National INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK. ESTABLISHED IN SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS. PATRONESS. HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. VICE-FATUOUS. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT, K.G. HIS MAJESTY THE...

The late BENJAMIN BUCK GREENE, Esq., of Kensington Palace Gardens . 100 - - The late WILLIAM BICHABDSOST, Esq., of Sheffield 50 - - The late Mrs. H. GLABKE, of Ellhoughton, Yorkshire . . 19 19 - Voted the thanks of the...

Hilton London Docklands with dinner £69.50 £8450 Hilton London Islington with dinner £6950 £84.50 Hilton London Kensington with dinner £49.50 £68.50 Hilton London Mews with dinner £5450 £69.50 Hilton...

THE Chairman of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., told the annual meeting of the Institution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 25th March, 1969, that, following the serious deficit...