LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, llth June, 1896.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
March
MARCH Launches 36 Lives rescued 12
MARCH 1ST. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
The fishing fleet was out in bad weather, with strong squalls from the north, snow showers and a rough sea, and at 11.30 in the morning,...
Category: Services
Some Ways of Raising Monev
'A Queen's Gala' at Pitcaple Castle, Inverurie, on Sunday June 10 raised £1,600 for the lifeboat service. During the afternoon six scenes from the life of Mary Queen of Scots were danced on the lawn by pupils of the Anne...
Category: Donations
Mla Unit Trust Management
MLA INTERNATIONAL TRUST A truly international spread which has grown 42.5% in 12 months MLA International Trust invests for capital growth in the world's leading stock markets and strongest currencies - it has notched up gains of 42.5%...
Category: Advertisement
A Long Search on the Aberdeen Coast. Coxswain's Silver Medal and Second-Service Clasp In One Year
AT nine in the evening of 4th Novem- ber, 1937, many people in the village of Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, heard the sound of a ship's siren, and thought that it must come from a ship dangerously close to the shore. A southerly gale was...
Category: Services
Coxswain Thomas Henny
The Institution also deeply regrets the death of five other former cox- swains :— COXSWAIN SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAM ANDERSON, of the Humber.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM DYKE, of Swanage.
COXSWAIN ALEXANDER ...
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat - In Danger's Hour By Patrick Howarth
Lifeboat - in Danger's Hour by Patrick Howarth and published by Hamlyns was 'launched' at Eastbourne last April, when the author (r.} presented a copy to Coxwain/ Mechanic Ronald Wheeler. Chosen by the Booksellers Association as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Billow’s Crown, of St. Abbs
OCTOBER 20TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
During the morning the motor fishing boat Billow’s Crown, of St. Abbs, was caught in a south-east gale, with a rough sea, while returning from fishing. She had a crew of four. The...
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
Letters
Twenty years after...
• The date September 19, 1954 is indelibly written in my mind and may perhaps strike a chord with you. For my part I was one of the crew of the good ship Nicky which went aground on the Mere Rocks.<...
Category: Correspondence