LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN the face of the gratifying fact that our commerce is year by year expanding itself by many thousands of tons of shipping, it is a lamentable and mortifying truth, that the advance of our science and skill does not keep pace with this...

Thursday, Jan. 3, 1856.—THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.

Head and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance, Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com- mittees.

THURSDAY, 2nd October, 1879: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and...

THE ANNUAL MEETING of the RNLI this year was split into morning and afternoon sessions at the Royal Festival Hall, London, the first being for the governors and the second for the presentation of medals for gallantry and awards to voluntary...

THE CENTRAL APPEALS COMMITTEE met for its final meeting at the Royal Festival Hall on Thursday, May 8, following the annual general meeting.

The CAC had been formed at a time when income was not balancing...

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

ALTHOUGH the French were the first to experiment, as early as 1775, with an 'unsinkable and uncapsizable skiff' (canot insubmersible et inchavirable), they did not develop an organized life-boat service until much later.