LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1937
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on 25th May. The amount raised was £5,323, an increase of £276 on 1936.
Presentation by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the...
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News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1938
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on 31st May. The amount raised was £6,397, an increase of £1,074 on 1937.
Presentation 'by Mr. Kenneth Lindsay, M.P.,...
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Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 107. Lives rescued 38.
September Meeting.
Stromness, Orkney.—On the 24th June the steam trawler Braemar, of Aberdeen, homeward bound from fishing, ran ashore on the north side of Birsay in a...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management
February Meeting.
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—On the llth December, 1932, the 4,920- ton steamer Pauline, of Panama, came to anchor in a very dangerous position in Tramore Bay. She was bound, light, from Glasgow to...
Category: Services
Coronation Supplement. The Royal Family and the Life-Boat Service
WHEN the Life-boat Service was founded, at a meeting in the City of London, in 1824, King George IV became its Patron, and five of the royal dukes its vice-patrons—York, Clarence, Sussex, Cambridge and Gloucester.
So the...
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News from the Branches. 1st October to 31st December, 1938
Greater London.
Film premiere attended by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square. (A full account appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat.) BATTERSEA.—The Rev. P. H. Jones, C.B.E., R.N....
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Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March. 29 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 28 times and rescued 3 lives.
INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF TRAWLER Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 5.15 on the evening of the 1st of January, 1960, the coastguard informed the...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th January, 1870: THOMAS CHAP- MAN, 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-...
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The Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
302 THE LIFE-BOATS OF THE ROYAL STATION. Length. Breadth. No. of Oars. When Stationed or Named. No, ENGLAND. It In. ...
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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 "...
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