LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Pull out RNLI AGM and APA An invitation to all supporters It has been another busy year for the RNLI. Supporters can re? ect on the events of 2007 at the RNLI’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Annual Presentation of Awards (APA) at the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Reported to the September Meeting.
Ramsgate, Kent. — The Norwegian steamer Lovoy, of Haugesund, while bound from...
Category: Services
F.E. 88
Dover, Kent. At 5.25 on the evening of the 13th of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a local fishing boat was mis- sing off Folkestone. When the life-boat Southern Africa put out at 6.3 it was low water....
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 23rd June, 1922.
The Right Hon. The EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND £ s....
Category: Committee
The Spanish Liquid Gas Carrier Butaseis
Liquid gas carrier fire A SPANISH LIQUID gas carrier Butaseis, lying at anchor three quarters of a mile off Brixham breakwater with a fire in her crew's quarters, was reported to the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 0749...
The Equipment of a Life-Boat. (Continued.)
The Sails of a Life-boat are of No. 5 or No. 6 canvas, made from the finest flax, and tanned with bark to render them rot-proof. They are now all cut with a very high peak, and consist in most cases of a jib and standing fore and mizen lugs,...
Category: Articles
October (1)
OCTOBER MEETING ST.ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. About mid-day on the 13th of July, 1945, it was reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea off St.
Abbs Head. A light north-east wind was blowing, with a slight sea, and the...
Category: Services
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Category: Advertisement
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To WILLIAM J. BAKER, on his retirement, after serving for 25J years as coxswain of the Padstow life-boat, a coxswain's certificate •of service and an annuity.
To JAMES TAIT, on his retirement, after serving for 15f...
Category: Awards
A Pram Dinghy and Coral Star
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.9 on the night of 21st April, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that two men had been reported to have left Cowes pontoon in an 8-ft. pram dinghy for their ship in Cowes Roads, and there...