LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Award of Ministry of Transport Shield
THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr. Harold Watkinson, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service during the past year to the Blyth Coast Life-Saving Company. As a result of their efforts nine members of the crew of the s...
Category: Awards
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1889
THE RIGHT Hos. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, P.C., M.P., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Right Hon.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, P.O., M.P.
Seconded by The Right Hon.
the Earl of MOUNT...
Category: Meetings
Painting 'The Lynmouth Lifeboat Service 1899' By Mark R Myers Rsma
MY INTEREST IN PAINTING an incident from the famous Lynmouth lifeboat service to Forrest Hall goes back to the time when I was boatswain in the little square-rigged replica of Nonsuch ketch.
We were on passage from Falmouth...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, the 15th day of March, 1877, His Grace the DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L.,...
Category: Annual Reports
The German Barque Hera
The wreck of the German barque Hera in Gerrans Bay on the 1st February was unfor- tunately attended by the loss of nineteen lives. The vessel, which was a four- masted barque, of nearly 2,000 tons, was bound from Pisagua with a cargo of...
Ready for the Start of Exmouth Carnival Procession Last Summer Old Pulling Lifeboat the Bedford Lent By Exeter Maritime Museum for the Occasion She Was Manned By
Ready for the start of Exmouth Carnival Procession last summer, old pulling lifeboat The Bedford, lent by Exeter Maritime Museum for the occasion. She was manned by members of Exmouth lifeboat crew. Photograph by courtesy of L. W. Aplin..<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1870
HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, F,C,in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION for the current year:—(vide last...
Category: Meetings
A Life-Boat at the Naval Review at Spithead
IN November, 1923, a special review of the Atlantic Fleet was held at Spithead for the Dominion Prime Ministers then attending the Imperial Conference. On the day on which the review took place —a day of rough weather—the City of Bradford,...
Category: Articles
The Steam Life-Boats for Grimsby and Padstow: A New Departure
IT is just a year (vide Life-boat Journal, February, 1898) since a description was given in these pages of the steam Life- boat Queen, which was sent to her station at New Brighton in October, 1897. After the launch of that boat and before...
Category: Articles