LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 18th April, 1901.
Sir EDWARD BIRKECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read letter from His Majesty's Principal...
Category: Committee
A Converted Ship's Life-Boat
HANDKERCHIEF SIGNAL At 10.42 a.m. the next day, the Rame Head coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Plympton police had reported that a boat needing help about a mile off Bovisand was under observation from Breakwater Fort and did...
Coxswain Greig, of Stromness
Coxswain Robert Greig, of Stromness, in the Orkneys, died on 23rd March at the age of eighty-three. At the age of ten he went to Edinburgh, and became assistant to his uncle, who was a book- seller. After two years of bookselling he went to...
Category: Obituaries
In This Issue
In this issue News Letters Feature Lifeboats on the Thames Lifeboats move into the big city with the establishment of four new stations on the River Thames Lifeboats in action Award-winning rescues - including an account of four people...
Category: Contents
Dutch Service to a British Steamer. 41 Lives Rescued from a Vessel of the Elder Dempster Line
T/ie following is an abbreviated version of a graphic account of a fine service to a British vessel which appears in De Reddingboot, the journal of the North and South Holland Life-saving Society, for last June. The three Life-boats engaged...
Category: Services
Letters
Whitby pulling lifeboat The photograph of Whitby pulling lifeboat Robert and Ellen Robson published in the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT made me wonder whether she was the one that started my interest in the lifeboat service in 1919.
Category: Correspondence
April
APRIL Launches 53. Lives rescued 40.
APRIL 1ST. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
At 1.30 P.M. a message was received from the Wyre Lighthouse that a ship’s lifeboat needed help. A moderate W.S.W. wind was...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SIDMOUTH, DEVON. — This Life-boat Station has been provided with a new 34 feet 10-oared Life-boat, possessing all the latest improvements and furnished with a transporting carriage. The expense of the change was met by a gift of...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
Two life-boats 70- foot in length, which will be larger than any at present in the Institution's service, are to be built by Messrs. Yarrow and Company Ltd.
in Scotstoun, Glasgow. Both will be constructed in steel, one...
Category: Articles
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Mass rescue by RNLI Beach Lifeguards Brilliant sunshine and perfect surf conditions drew large numbers of people to North Cornwall at the end of May this year. Adults and children were enjoying swimming and playing in the water between the...