LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A New Life-Boat Film
A YEAR ago the Institution had a sound film made which showed the building of a motor life-boat, from the felling of teak and mahogany logs in Burma and Honduras up to the arrival of the completed boat at her...
Category: Articles
The Effect of Steam Fishing-Boats on Small Fishing Communities
IN a former article in this journal (February, 1895) it was pointed out what an important part in the organi- zation of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was occupied by the fisher- men living on the coasts of Great Britain and...
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Fordingbridge Branch Held a Cricketers V Celebrities Cricket Match at Godshill Last August Among Those Who Helped to Raise £400 for the Lifeboat Service Were (1 to R) Brian Tirnms (Hampshire
Fordingbridge branch held a Cricketers v Celebrities cricket match at Godshill last August.
Among those who helped to raise £400 for the lifeboat service were (1. to r.) Brian Tirnms (Hampshire and Warwickshire),... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Getting the Reserve Life-Boat Grace Darling Launched In May, 1970,
Getting the reserve life-boat Grace Darling launched in May, 1970, when she was taken by a Bridlington crew from Flamborough to Bridlington.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 8th April, 1868: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq.,F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
Listings
Seahorse III at Cromer The naming ceremony for the new D class lifeboat was held outside the inshore boathouse despite overcast conditions and the forecast of heavy rain. The chairman introduced John Gamble, representing the sponsors of the...
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Meetings of Committee
Thursday, 7th Dec., 1854. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read letters from the...
Category: Committee
Bronze Medal Service By the Portpatrick Life-Boat
A Twelve Hours' Service in a Whole Gale.
AT 8.25 in the evening of 13th January a wireless message was received by the Coastguard at Portpatrick, Wigtown- shire, that a vessel was showing signals of distress off the...
Category: Services
The Motor Yawl Ivy Lass
Walmer, Kent. At 7.52 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor yawl Ivy Lass of Maldon was secured alongside the East Goodwin lightvessel, as she had run short of petrol....
Wheelbarrow Instead of Car.
The chairman of Rickmansworth and Croxley Green branch writes about her flag day: "We had beautiful weather. The sellers were all very keen. The result, £132, is more than last year. My wheelbarrow came in yery useful in delivering...
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