LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Tuesday, 2nd August 1860. Capt. Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of .the Finance, Correspondence, Wreck and Reward and Barometer Sub-...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1952
Persons rescued from shipwreck Time of ! Launching 4. 12.15 p.m. Valentia life-boat took a doctor and stores to Blasket Island.
6. 11.20a.m. Sennen Cove life-boat took doctors and a nurse to St. Mary's,...
Category: Services
Safety In Numbers
Congratulations! Thanks to the hard work and dedication of the RNLI's supporters the lifeboat service is now on an extremely sound financial footing, and looks set to continue that way. Twenty years ago things were far from rosy, but...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th July, 1914.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair. Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read the minutes of the Building, Finance and Correspondence,...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats In December, 1951, January and February, 1952. 76 Lives Rescued
DURING December, 1951, life-boats went out on service 35 times and rescued 15 lives.
ENGINE BROKEN DOWN Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 3.7 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a woman had...
Category: Services
News from the Branches. April 1st to June 30th
Greater London.
CARSHALTOX (SURREY).—Whist Drive.
CRANFORD (MIDDLESEX). — Whist Drive.
ELSTREE (HERTFORDSHIRE). —• On 28th June a Garden Party given by Sir Trevor and Lady Dawson at...
Category: Branches
Centenary of the Dutch Life-Boat Service
As was indicated in the important article contributed by my friend, Mr. de Booy, in the February, 1921, issue of this journal, the beneficent influence of Sir William Hillary's noble initiative in the foundation of the ROYAL NATIONAL...
Category: Articles
Another Wrist Watch Awarded to Boy
About 11.40 on the morning of the 31st July, 1962, an 11-foot dinghy capsized about a mile north-west of St.
Helens fort off Bembridge in the Isle of Wight. There were three people aboard, a Mr. Gleave and his eleven-...
Category: Awards
People & Places
Boat Show '88 The organisers of this year's London Boat Show at Earls Court in January generously provided a stand next to the RNLI, for a display paying their own tribute to Grace Darling in the 150th anniversary year of the rescue...
Category: Articles
Our Life-Boat Work
IF we could always have OUR own way in this world, we would doubtless make all work easy, all work pleasant, all work safe; we would fain do good to others, not only without risk of injury to our- selves, "but even without serious...
Category: Articles