LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ever since the days of horse-drawn launches, the RNLI has been great friends with the animal kingdom. Lifeboat crews and lifeguards have saved dogs, cats, sheep, cows, horses, deer and dolphins.

Although the RNLI’s...

THURSDAY, 12th September, 1895.

Admiral Sir WILLIAM MONTAGU DOWELL, G.C.B., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Finance and...

MARCH 8TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

While the No. 2 life-boat was at exercise with the District Inspector aboard, a service call, the third that day, was received. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea.

MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—Nine of the large fishing-boats went out to the line fishery grounds, about ninety miles distant from the land, on the morning of the 8th May. On the following evening the wind, which was blowing from E.N.E., increased...

FROM IST JANUARY TO 16-rn APKIL, 1874.

John and Jenefer, fchooner, of Fowey 5 Mary, smack, of Grtmsby 6 Jessie, schooner, of Blylh 6 /Via, barqne, of Blyth— Saved vessel and crew 11 EXKX. brig, of...

THURSDAY, 13th June, 1907.

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Building, Finance and...

As in previous years, the Institution is issuing this autumn a Life-boat Calen- dar for next year. It is also issuing, for the first time, a Life-boat Christmas card, and we hope that readers of The Lifeboat will buy this calendar for their...

Six more examples of the way in which old age helps the life-boat service have to be added to those given in The Life-boat for September of last year.

An anonymous gift has come from " a poor old woman of eighty, but...