LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
UNTIL the year 1857* the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION circulated at its lifeboat stations the Rules of the Royal Humane Society for the " Restoration of the Apparently Drowned." In that year, however, those Rules having...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 12th September, 1912.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building,...
Category: Committee
Josse
Crew overboard during yacht rescue The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum has been awarded to helmsman Duane Brown of Walmer lifeboat after the rescue of three Belgians from their yacht Josse,aground on the Goodwin Sands, in strong winds...
Training for Disaster
ILINER EXPLODES IN WORKINGTON HARBOUR - MANY FEARED DEAD, 100 INJURED 'Sirens blasted across Workington as black clouds of smoke rose above the town. Roads were blocked as ambulances and fire engines hurtled towards the docks, blue...
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Inshore Lifeboat Services September October and November 1975
Abersoch, Gwynedd October 10 and November 5.
Aberystwyth, Dyfed September 19 and 21.
Bangor, Co. Down October 5.
Barmouth, Gwynedd September 21.
Barrow, Cumbria...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 4th June, 1908.
Colonel FITZ-ROY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Lifeboat Services November and December 1983 January and February 1984
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: November 5 and December 2 Relief 52ft Arun: January 26 and February 9 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: November 4 Aldeburgh, Suffolk Relief 42ft Beach: December 30 and January 5 Amble, Northumberland 37ft 6in...
Category: Services
False Alarms
(N The Lifeboat for November, 1925, two cases were mentioned of Life-boats going out owing to lights on land being mis- taken for lights at sea. In one case the Selsey Life-boat cruised about for three hours and could find no vessel, the...
Category: Articles
The British Airways Helicopter G-BEON
Crashed helicopter FALMOUTH COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of St Mary's lifeboat station. Isles of Scilly, at 1250 on Saturday July 16. 1983, that the British Airways helicopter G-BEON was overdue at St Mary's...
Joint Charities Christmas Card
A company has been set up known as Joint Charities Christmas Appeal Limited to sell Christmas cards on behalf of 19 charities, one of which is the R.N.L.I.
The cards will be known as 'Help Cards' and will be sold in...
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