THIS year has been one of exceptional interest with regard to the development of Marine Motors, and it will be satis- factory to the supporters of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to know that the subject of placing motors in...
Category: Articles
At the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 21st day of March, 1861;, Vice-Admiral the Eight Honourable the Earl of HARDWICKE in the Chair, The following report of the...
Category: Annual Reports
A right royal occasion at PlymouthThe poor weather didn't dampen spirits when HM The Queen named Plymouth's new £2M Severn class lifeboat on 23 July 2003. The Duke of Edinburgh accompanied The Queen at Queen Anne's Battery...
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THE annual general meeting of the Governors of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 25th of March, 1958. The Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, was in the...
Category: Meetings
" Imagine that You have been Shipwrecked and Rescued by a Life-boat.
Describe Your Experiences." THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools has been held this year for...
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A selection of lifeboat services from around the country Wells East Division Three saved .from stranded vessel Aservice to a fishing vessel in gale force winds, darkness, shallow water and heavy breaking seas has earned Wells lifeboat...
Category: Services
THURSDAY, 7th October, 1875 : THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of thelnstitutim, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those 'of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and...
Category: Committee
The winter 2004/05 issue of the Lifeboat included a plea for help from Shoreline member Nigel Whitfield, who has been dubbed a mere 'land lubber' by his boss, a keen dinghy sailor and diver. Our readers came up trumps for Nigel, and...
Category: Correspondence
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the night j of Sunday the 1st October, 1876, the ] No. 2 Life-boat, John Turner-Turner, res- cued the crew of the brig Mary Ann, of Whitehaven, and 4 boatmen, being 10 in all, from that vessel, which had drifted on...
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