I. THE Annual General Meeting prescribed by the Charter shall be held on the 4th day of March, or as soon after as may be convenient, and the same and all other General Meetings shall be held at such time and place as the Committee of Manage...
Category: Articles
IN HIS SPEECH to the governors of the Institution at the annual general meeting held at the Royal Festival Hall on May 12, the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, reported that 1980 had been a year of great achievement for the RNLI, with...
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DURING the autumn of 1924 two films with a special Life-boat interest i were released to the Cinemas. One o f ' them, " Down to the Sea in Ships," is; the cruise of a whaler. Among its scenes are the wreck of one of the boats...
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LOWESTOFT, the most easterly point of these Islands, and consequently the nearest to the coast of our enemy, has had since the outbreak of the War more services to its credit than any other Life-boat Station in the United Kingdom, the boat...
Category: Services
THURSDAY, 9th January, 1896.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., Y.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
A VERY fine service in which the crew of the Newburgh Life-boat and men of H.M. Destroyers Vampire and Vendetta played a gallant part, took place on October 19th, the anniversary of the wreck of the Hopelyn last year, off Belhelvie, near...
Category: Medals
« Oh! wad some Power the glftle gie us To see oursels as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us." Burns.
THERE is no community, and perhaps no single individual, who may not derive advantage from the...
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Thursday, Jan. 1, 1857. THOMAS CHAP- MAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Management.
Thursday, 18th December, 1924.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Decided to close the following Stations : — Gorleston, No. 2.
Winterton, Nos. 1 and...
Category: Committee
The Norwegian steamer Mi'm which went ashore in the Orkneys on 9th November, 1939. - View image in PDF
The Stromness life-boat rescued 22 of her crew, and a local boat rescued II.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs