LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The world's first lifeboat station? Until recently it has been accepted that the world's first lifeboat station was at Bamburgh, Northumberland, where, in 1786, Dr John Sharp, the chief administrator of the Crewe Trust, persuaded...

THERE has been a Life-boat at Cresswell, on the Northumbrian coast, for the last fifty years. What manner of place it is was described by the then Hon. Secre- tary in an article which appeared in! The Lifeboat in February,...

Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.

Reported to the September Meeting.

Ramsgate, Kent. — The Norwegian steamer Lovoy, of Haugesund, while bound from...

CHAP, I.—LIFE-BOAT WEATHER AND LIFE- BOAT WORK 

Do we not often find, in the winter's even-ing, that our warm rooms seem more cosy, and the flames lap more brightly and closely round the half-consumed log, as a...

IN 1889 Mr. EGBERT BAYLY, of Torr Grove, Ply month, a member of the Local Committee of the Port of Plymouth Branch of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, published, with the sanction of the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, of which he...

Reported to the October, November, December, and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.

October Meeting.

EOSSLARE HARBOUR, Co. WEXFORD.

—On 20th September the Royal Firth, of...

THE DUKE OF KENT, President of the Institution, visited the RNLI headquarters and depot at Poole on Tuesday morning, October 7, attended by his Private Secretary, Lt-Cdr Richard Buckley, and accompanied by HM Lieutenant for Dorset, Col Sir...

THE DUKE OF ATHOM-, chairman of the Institution, reported to the annual general meeting of governors on Tuesday morning. May 17, that during 1982 lifeboats launched 3.304 times, the highest number since the foundation of the RNLI, and saved...