LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News and Views
New Severn class lifeboat for Stornoway station It has recently been agreed by the executive committee of the RNLI that Stornoway will be allocated a new Severn class lifeboat.
In 1995, Stornoway was allocated the first...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, the 18th day of March 1879, his Grace the DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, Lord Privy Seal,...
Category: Annual Reports
Admiralty Register of Wrecks for the Years 1850-51
SUCH is the title of an interesting blue-book recently presented to Parliament by the Harbour Department of the Admiralty.
The register is necessarily dry and bald.
From the number of columns (22)...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
Rallying round Neil Parullo and Nairn Brown entered a 72-hour classic car rally from Land's End to John O'Groats and raised a total of £5,100 for Strathmore branch - making them the clear winners of the shield awarded to the car...
Category: Articles
The Fund Raisers
Coffee mates Pupils from Derwentwater Infants School, all aged between five and six years old, ran a parents' coffee morning last November, baking cakes and serving their guests themselves. Parents jumped at the chance to be served by...
Category: Articles
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT RHOSNEIGIR RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY. About 11.30 in the morning of the 28th of August, 1941, a British bombing aeroplane crashed in the sea off Rhosneigir.
A gale was blowing from the...
Category: Services
Busiest Day In the History of the Life-Boat Service
BETWEEN the late evening of Saturday, the 28th of July, and Sunday, the 29th of July, the Life-boat Service ex- perienced the busiest day in its entire history.
During most of the month of July the weather had been bad and...
Category: Services
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 3
IN the last number of the Life-boat Journal (August, 1900) this sketch was taken up to 1840, when the Liverpool type of Life-boat came into use, and the improvements in that type were traced up to the present date.
About...
Category: Articles
Seven Ships including the Orminster and the Browning
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 21ST. - NEWCASTLE, AND CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.45 in the morning a message came to Cloughey from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore half a mile off Ballyquinton, and at 1.40 the life-boat...
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1934
1st May to 31st July, 1934.
Greater London.
BEXLEY HEATH.—Garden meeting.
Speaker : The district organizing secretary.
CLAPHAM.—" Bring and Buy "...
Category: Branches