LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent's Presidential Address
THE meeting to-day has a twofold purpose; to hear about the work of the Institution during 1946; and to pay our tribute to the gallant self-sacrifice of The Mumbles life-boat crew, for whose families we all have the deepest...
Category: Meetings
Special Committee Meeting. 19th March
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read the following Report of the Chief In- spector and District Inspector of Life-boats on their inquiries into the circumstances attending the accidents to the...
Category: Committee
Lifeboat Services
Scotland South Division Fourteen rescued A TRAWLER, Erlo Hills, ashore north west of the Mull of Kintyre, Argyllshire, was reported by Clyde Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Campbeltown lifeboat station at 0655 on Friday October 2,...
Category: Services
Receipts and Payments Account for the Year Ended 31st December, 1966
PAYMENTS.
LIFE-BOATS:— New life-boats, including payments on account for boats for the following stations:— Anstruther, Barry Dock, Cromer, Dover, Dun Laoghaire, Gorleston, Ilfracombe, Kirkcudbright, Newbiggin, North...
Category: Accounts
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded In 1877
Jan.3.—Three men of Budleigh Salterton,Devon- shire, saved 2 Coastguardmen, whose boat, while they were crossing the river Otter on duty, had been carried down the river by the current and wrecked against the rocks at Otter Point, during a...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1861
SHAKESPEARE compares England to a fortress, and the Channel to a moat; but if he saw the leviathan steamers now coming up that channel, he would be the first to acknowledge that the comparison did not hold good in the present day. We do not...
Category: Articles
A Twenty-Mile Tow Off the Kerry Coast
AT 4.15 on the afternoon of the 13th of May, 1953, the honorary secretary of the Valentia, Co. Kerry, life-boat station heard from the Valentia radio station, that the French trawler Liber- ator, of Calmaret, had lost her propeller and...
Category: Services
Lifeboat People
Birthday Honours Knights Bachelor John Henry Loveridge, CBE, Bailiff of Guernsey. Sir John is vice-president of the Guernsey branch.
QBE Roy Ernest Bailhache, Jurat, Royal Court of Jersey. Jurat Bailhache is chairman of the...
Category: Articles
150th Anniversary Celebrations In Scotland
ON SUNDAY, December 1, 1974, a service of thanksgiving and dedication on the 150th anniversary of the founding of the RNLI was held in St Giles' Cathedral, the High Kirk of Edinburgh. It was a simple but moving service, with clergy from...
Category: Articles
The Angling Vessel Badger
Pushed to the limit Two inshore lifeboats were tested to their limits on 9 March 2002, when an angling vessel with a crew of three was in difficulty 1.5 miles from Southend-on-Sea. The weather was fair and dry.
but there...