LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1853
Moved by Capt. SHEPHERD, H.C.S., Deputy Master of the Trinity House, and seconded by Mr. J. D. POWLES.
1.—That the Report now read be adopted, published, and circulated.
Moved by Mr. THOMAS CHAPMAN,...
Category: Meetings
The Annual General Meeting
THE annual general meeting of the Governors of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 25th of March, 1958. The Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, was in the...
Category: Meetings
Endeavour,Progress, Easter Morn,Prosperity,Venus, et al
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 18th February, 1939, a fresh N.W. wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. It was breaking heavily from the Pier Ends to the Rock Buoy, and anxiety was felt for the safety of nine of the local motor...
A Meteor Aircraft
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.6 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that No. 18 Group, Royal Air Force, at Inver- keithing had reported that an air search was being made off Whitby for a missing Meteor aircraft. At...
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...
Category: Articles
Vulcan, of Whitstable
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK. — ON Sunday morning, the 12th November, the brig Vulcan, of Whitstable, during a heavy gale, parted from her anchors, and making sail to clear the pier at the entrance to Yarmouth harbour, ran on the Gorlestonbeach. The...
Fishing Cobles
COBLES ESCORTED Filey, Yorkshire. At 8 a.m. on 8th May, 1964, the life-boat second coxswain reported that six local fishing cobles were at sea in deteriorating weather. At 8.55 the life-boat The Isa & Penryn Mihted was launched with the...
The Minesweeper Cape Comorin (1)
DEC. 11TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Members of a salvage party on board the wrecked minesweeper Cape Comorin had been injured, but seas breaking over the vessel made it impossible for the life-boat to take them off and they...
R.A.F. High Speed Launch 124
JANUARY 23RD. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 8.15 P.M. flag officer in charge Great Yarmouth asked, through the coastguard, for the services of the life-boat for R.A.F. High Speed Launch 124, which was aground on Scroby Sands...