LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Management.
Thursday, 18th December, 1924.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Decided to close the following Stations : — Gorleston, No. 2.
Winterton, Nos. 1 and...
Category: Committee
Annual Meeting
THE ninety-second Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Council Chamber at the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, March 29th, 1916, at 3.30 P.M. The Eight Hon. the Earl of Plymouth, P.O.,...
Category: Meetings
Bronze Medal Service By the Portpatrick Life-Boat
A Twelve Hours' Service in a Whole Gale.
AT 8.25 in the evening of 13th January a wireless message was received by the Coastguard at Portpatrick, Wigtown- shire, that a vessel was showing signals of distress off the...
Category: Services
Annual Report. 1895
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 23rd day of March, 1895, THE EIGHT EON.
LORD TWEEDMOUTH, Lord Privy Seal...
Category: Annual Reports
An Avenger Aircraft
The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 2.23 on the afternoon of the 31st of March, 1955, the life-boat honorary secretary saw an Avenger aircraft, with a crew of four, from the Royal Naval Air Station at Culdrose, crash into the sea half a mile south-west...
An Aeroplane (77)
OCTOBER 8TH. - SENNEN COVE, AND ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 2.23 P .M.
information was received at Sennen Cove from the coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea two hundred yards off Pendeen Lighthouse, and that two men...
An Aeroplane (76)
OCTOBER 8TH. - SENNEN COVE, AND ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 2.23 P .M.
information was received at Sennen Cove from the coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea two hundred yards off Pendeen Lighthouse, and that two men...
Notes on Building a Life-Boat
IN the last number of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL an account was given of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and it may now be of interest to give a few notes as to the way she is built.
For many years, indeed since 1899,...
Category: Articles
An Angling Boat
Injured angler A RED FLARE in the Bracklesham Bay area was spotted at 1005 on Sunday, December 7, 1986 by Hayling Island Crew Member Graham Raines, who advised Solent Coastguard. The station honorary secretary agreed to alert the crew and...
An Aeroplane (24)
MARCH 26TH. - APPLEDORE, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 11.15 in the morning Croyde coastguard reported to Appledore that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea. The same information was given to Ilfracombe by the resident naval officer. The...