THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sustained a great loss by the death, on the 27th November last, of the late Captain CHETWYND, who had been a devoted and enthusiastic officer of the Committee for rather more than fourteen years....
Category: Obituaries
THE five outstanding efforts made by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild last winter were the Second Annual Life-boat Matinee organised by the Central London Women's Committee last December, of which an account appeared in the last number of...
Category: Articles
Peep into the past Fascinating excerpts from the Lifeboat archives … 100 years ago The May 1907 Journal reported on experiments to improve life-belts and the early days of a new era in lifeboat crew kit: ‘The life-belt produced by the...
Category: Articles
AID FOR PILOT CUTTER Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. The Preston Harbour Master telephoned the honorary secretary at 11.35 p.m. on 4th October, 1963, stating that the pilot cutter St. Margaret had broken down and was drifting with her...
The History of the North Deal Walmer and Kingsdowne Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 (including post and packing)A new book by this prolific chronicler of lifeboats station histories - this time covering three...
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(above) Last December the 52ft Burnett Euphrosyne Kendal on temporary duty at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, rendezvoused in the Solent with Air Commodore Brian Macnamuru's yacht, Tamare, to pick up festive fare and deliver it to the Needles... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The life-boat formerly placed at Sizewell- Gap, on the east coast of Suffolk, has been for the present transferred to Aldborough, five miles farther south, as a more serviceable spot, and where it can be...
Category: Articles
THURSDAY, 4fh January, 1872. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
The curved after end of the tunnel cant is built up, in position, of agba laminates scarphed on to solid mahogany for the straight run forward. The building batten can once again be seen at the top of the picture.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Winterton No. 2 Life-boat Margaret was launched at 1 A.M. on the 13th April to the assistance of a vessel stranded on Hammond's Knoll. When about three miles out the boat was picked up by a steam-tug, and arrived about 7 A.M. at the...