A LIFEBOAT NAMING CEREMONY is always a happy occasion for a station, its supporters, and, indeed, the whole local community, but that at Port St Mary, Isle of Man, had a particularly pleasurable aspect. For while the RNLI has many lifeboats...
Category: Inaugurations
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aberdovey, Merionethshire Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Amble, Northumberland Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Bangor, Co. Down Barmouth, Merionethshire Barrow, Lancashire Bembridge, Isle of...
Category: Services
THE hundred and eleventh annual meeting of the governors of the Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 P.M. on Friday, 5th April.
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, presided,...
Category: Meetings
Thursday, 9th February, 1933.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Co-opted Colonel the Hon. Harold Robson, a member of the committee of management.
Reported the receipt of the...
Category: Committee
Margate, Kent, Walton and Frinton, Essex, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.33 in the morning of the 18th of January, 1952, the Margate coastguard telephon- ed the Margate life-boat station that the North Foreland Radio Station had reported a message...
Thursday, 2nd June, 1870. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
TANKER FIRE VISIBLE FROM FIVE MILES AWAY Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and...
Category: Services
BY the death of Dr. C. L. Fraser, of Berwick-on-Tweed, at the end of March, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most valued Station Honorary Secretaries. Dr. Fraser, who was a native of Montrose and was sixty-seven years old, had...
Category: Obituaries
Thursday, February llth, 1932.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— Mrs. Helen Davis, 100 £1 Preference shares in the Lady Workers'...
Category: Committee
Coxswain Richard Evans, BEM, received the Honorary Fellowship of Manchester Polytechnic on Thursday, December 4, 1975, in honour of his long and distinguished service as a member of the crew and as coxswain of Moelfre lifeboat. Coxswain...
Category: Articles