LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Founding of the Institution. The Report of the First Meeting
THE Institution was founded at a meeting held in the City of London Tavern on 4th March, 1824, with the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Manners Sutton), in the chair. The twelve resolutions which called the Institution into being and laid down...
Category: Meetings
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1934
1st May to 31st July, 1934.
Greater London.
BEXLEY HEATH.—Garden meeting.
Speaker : The district organizing secretary.
CLAPHAM.—" Bring and Buy "...
Category: Branches
The Exhibition Galleon Hispaniola
Sennen Cove and St. Ives, Cornwall -At noon on 12th April, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Sennen Cove life-boat station that the owner of the exhibition galleon Hispaniola had expressed concern for the safety of...
Fraserburgh
A DEPLORABLE accident, which resulted in the loss of two lives, occurred at Fraserburgh, on the 28th April. The Admiralty drifter Eminent, which left Buryhead the previous night, bound for Fraserburgh to be " demobilised," had an...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meeting
THE hundred and fourteenth annual meeting of the Governors of the In- stitution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, llth May. Over 1,800 people were present.
H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.,...
Category: Meetings
News from the Branches. 1st July to 30th September
Greater London.
PRESENTATION of awards for Greater London and the South-east of England in the Life-boat Essay Competition, by Sir Malcolm Campbell, the Mayor of Westminster presiding. (See full report in last issue of The...
Category: Branches
News from the Branches. 1st October to 31st December
Greater London.
ASHFORD.—Flag Whist Drive.
BARKING.—Life-boat in the procession celebrating the incorporation of Barking as a Borough.
BRONDESBUBY. — Address to Young People's League...
Category: Branches
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 7th July, 1916.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read and confirmed the minutes oi the...
Category: Committee
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
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