LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Thursday, 16th April, 1936.

SIR GODFREY BARING, BT., followed by the HON. GEORGE COLVILLE, in the chair.

Resolved that the respectful thanks of the Institution be conveyed to H.M. The King for his...

Injured girl RAMSEY COASTGUARD asked Peel lifeboat station honorary secretary at 1520 on Monday August 25, 1980, if the lifeboat would launch immediately to go to the help of a girl who had fallen off the cliffs between Niarbyl and White...

The Maldon Little Ship Club held a sponsored row in January and raised more than £4,000 for the Institution.

Some 43 boats and 150 people took part in the event, some of them in fancy dress.

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THE Institution has received a gift of £10 5s. from the children of a Liverpool preparatory school. It came from the sale of tickets for the last two school plays, The Merchant of Venice and The Pied Piper of Hamelin..

Relief fleet - D ciass City of Peterborough A new D class lifeboat funded by money raised from a special appeal in the Peterborough area, and organised by the local Peterborough branch, was officially handed over and dedicated in a ceremony...

IT is very difficult to ascertain with any degree of exactitude when sliding or drop-keels first came into use. In the third volume of " An History of Marine Architecture," by John Charnock, F.S.A., published in 1802, there is a...

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—On the 25th January, the Life-boat Leicester went off to the barque William Naizby, of London, which vessel had parted both her chains in a heavy squall, and had afterwards come into collision with the steamer Romeo, of...

SOUTHEND, CANTYRE, N.B. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Establishment, under the management of the Campbeltown Local Committee, at the south end of Cantyre, near Dunaverty Castle, where JANUARY 1, 1870.] THE...