LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
17 Ships
The most distressing calamities in connection with this disastrous storm of the 10th. Febru- ary happened at this place. It was a storm which raged on some portions of the east coast with a severity unequalled within the memory of...
Terrible Twins
Caister, Norfolk. At 9.35 on the morning of the llth of May, 1958, the motor mechanic saw a small ship's boat, which had broken down with engine trouble north of Caister Elbow buoy.
Ten minutes later the life-boat Jose...
Chairman Praises All for Their Efforts
CAPTAIN the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the Committee of Management, told the annual meeting of the In- stitution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 2ist March, 1967, that, in spite of efforts all round, receipts did not meet...
Category: Meetings
Some Ways of Raising Money
Time and time again comes the news that a branch or guild has passed all its previous achievements. There is Swansea which, with special efforts for Jubilee year, raised a record of £3,214. Then, at Lymington, the branch and guild...
Category: Donations
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, the 18th day of March 1879, his Grace the DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, Lord Privy Seal,...
Category: Annual Reports
The Centenary of Two Life-Boat Stations. Boulmer, Northumberland; Appledore, Devon
THIS summer two of the Institution's Life-boat Stations have celebrated their centenaries, Boulmer, in Northumberland, and Appledore, on the north coast of Devon. Boulmer was the first of the Institution's Stations in...
Category: Articles
The Society of Arts and Life-Saving Apparatus
THE "Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce," com- monly known as the " Society of Arts," as most of our readers will be aware, offers from time to time its Gold Medal to be competed for by...
Category: Articles
A Raft (1)
AUGUST 28TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. At 6.40 in the evening a telephone message was received from Scratby that an aircraftsman was being blown out to sea on a raft. The sea was choppy with a fresh west-north-west wind blowing. The man had gone...
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