LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1949
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Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th January, 1913.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
The Committee expressed deep regret at...
Category: Committee
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
To WILLIAM WATTS WILLIAMS, on his retirement, after serving for 19| years as coxswain of the St. David's life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement allowance.
To MATTHEW LETHBBIDGE,...
Category: Awards
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 14th February, 1935.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the death of the Rt. Hon. and Rev. the Earl of Devon, a vice-president of the Institution since...
Category: Committee
SPECIAL DELIVERY
READER INSPIRATION: WORDS
I am a member of a writers’ group. Recently we were asked to write about a lighthouse. It brought me back to my childhood when I was always fascinated by the man in the lighthouse. Those times have passed...
Category: Articles
The Loss of the Steam-Ship 'London'
A CALAMITY like that of the wreck of the steam-ship London is one of those grievous and tragic events with which, in these stormswept islands, the imagination of the public is only too familiar; yet which, out of the depths of misfortune and...
Category: Articles
Merchant Shipping (Carriage of Grain) Act, 1880
PERHAPS Mr. Plimsoll, in the interest of Saving Life at Sea, has done no more useful thing than pressing on the atten- tion of Parliament the necessity for addi- tional precautions and legal requirements to prevent the shifting of grain and...
Category: Articles
Shore Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1889
Jan. 6.—Three men put off in a boat and saved a boy who had fallen overboard from a boat off Wexford, Ireland.—Reward, 15s.
Jan. 9.—Four men. put off in a coble and saved the crew of five men from the boat of the steamer...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 3rd June, 1886.
His GRACE THE DUKE or NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., President, in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting. Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence,...
Category: Committee
Awards
Awards to Coxswains, crews and shore helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were also...
Category: Awards