LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WITH this number we greet a new readership. This consists of members of the newly formed Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association to be known as the Y.L.A. The new Association was formally brought into being by Sir Alec Rose at...

OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

f The figures refer to tlu numbers of Hit Life-boats detailed, on pages 616-627.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 165.

Abersocb, Carnarvon, 169 Aberystwith, Cardigan, 164...

Thursday, 2nd April, 1857. His Grace the PRESIDENT in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.

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Royal visit to four Scottish stations The RNLI's President, HRH The Duke of Kent, visited four lifeboat stations on the west coast of Scotland during a two day visit in July.

On 21 and 22 July, the President met...

Thankfully, lifeboat disasters are rare. Lifeboats are designed to withstand the very worst conditions and on occasions in recent years many crews have had cause to be grateful to the self-righting capability of modern lifeboats. The sea is...

This series of descriptive articles on visits to life-boat stations was begun by Margaret Peter. It is being continued by Stephen Mogridge, who writes about Plymouth in the first of his contributions.

WITH the Navy watching...

'ONE of the outstanding things about our station', explained Mr. Frederick W. H. Park, M.B.E., honorary secretary of the Torbay, South Devon, life-boat station, 'is that we are never short of men to man the life-boats. As for...

SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 17th October, 1869, during a violent gale from the N., a small ship drifted past this place with signals of distress flying. The life- boat Birmingham was at once dispatched , to the aid of the vessel, which...