LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 14th of March, 1956, with Lord Howe, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings
The Marquess of Ailsa
THE committee of management greatly regret the death in April of their colleague, the Marquess of Ailsa, at the age of ninety-one. Lord Ailsa was not only the oldest, but the senior member.
He joined the committee of manage...
Category: Obituaries
The Progress of Seventeen Years. A New Edition of "Modern Motor Life-Boats"
Ix 1933, when he had been the Insti- tution's consulting naval architect for twenty-nine years, Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.Inst.N.A., published his Modern Motor Life-boats (Blackie, 7,9. 6d.). When he retired in 19-17, after...
Category: Articles
Shields, of Cork
On the 18th June the Iris Life-boat also went out to the assistance of the brig Shields, of Cork, which had gone on the Mahon Rocks, off the coast of Wexford, while the wind was blowing from the W.S.W. The Life-boat remained by the vessel...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
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Category: Committee
All Three 70Ft Clyde Class (Right) Were Withdrawn from Service During the Summer of 1988 T
all three 70ft Clyde class (right) were withdrawn from service during the summer of 1988. The Clydes will be sold out of service and two of the four McLachlans will be retained for use as boarding boats at Number (Clyde photo courtesy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Community action
Clinging to the Devonshire coastal rock, Dartmouth is both a fi shing and naval port. Its waters also teem with leisure craft, jostling for the town’s 3,000-plus berths. More than 2M people fi nd themselves on the River Dart each year and...
Category: Articles
Hrh the Duke of Kent Visited the Institution's London Base In the Marine Society's Premises Lambeth Last March to Attend a Meeting of the Committee of Management the First Such Meeting E
HRH The Duke of Kent visited the Institution's London base in The Marine Society's premises, Lambeth, last March to attend a meeting of the Committee of Management, the first such meeting ever to be addressed by the President.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ARBROATH, FORFARSHIRE.—At about 11 P.M. on the 27th May the large fishing-boat Brothers Gem stranded on the rocks about half a mile to the N.E.
of Arbroath Harbour, and cries for help could be heard from the...
Category: Services
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Object and Work
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Articles