LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TUESDAY MAY 21, 1985 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: A.M.

PRESENTATION OF AWARDS: P.M.

There was much to please RNLI supporters in what the Institution's chairman, the Duke of Atholl, had to say in his two...

The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded collectively to the crew of the Swanage life-boat for the rescue of a man who had been stranded in a cave for more than two days.

At about 9 o'clock...

ONE OF THE PEOPLE upon whom honorary life governorship was bestowed at the 1973 annual meeting of the RNLI was Professor William W. Flexner, pho, in recognition of the very valuable help which he has given to the lifeboat service in the...

Is accordance with our custom for some years past, we present some facts connected with the Wreck Register and Chart, prepared annually by the Board of Trade for presentation to Parliament.

It is, as usual, a...

CUNNINGHAM'S Patent Mode of reefing Topsails from the Deck.—Most persons, even those who are not sailors by profession, are aware that the operation of reefing topsails is one of the most important on board a ship. By its means the...

Persons rescued from shipwreck.

Fishing cobles of Filey. Filey pulling and sailing life-boat escorted cobles into safety.

Sailing barge Melissa, of London. Ramsgate motor life-boat saved barge a n d...

LONGHOPE, ORKNEY ISLANDS. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Station at Longhope, on the south side of Hoy, one of the South Orkney Islands, where a lamentable ship- ! wreck, with loss of life, took place some '...

Aberdovey, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic 21: September 18 and October 6 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: September 11 and October 11 Aberystwyth, Dyfed D class inflatable: September 13 and 26 Aith, Shetland 52ft Barnett: September 11, 26 and October...