LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd June, 1853. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, M.P., in the Chair.
Confirmed Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Reported the death, on the...
Category: Committee
Bye-Laws of the Royal National Life-boat Institution
I. THE Annual General Meeting prescribed by the Charter shall be held on the 4th day of March, or as soon after as may be convenient,, and the same and all other General Meetings shall be held at such time and place as the Committee of...
Category: Meetings
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CEMAES, ANGLESEY. — The 30-feet 6- oared Life-boat, at Cemlyn, on the coast of Anglesey, has been transferred from that place to Cemaes, about four miles to the eastward. Since the lighthouse has been placed on one of the islands opposite...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a lifeboat station at this place. The life-boat is 36 feet long, 9 feet wide, and rows 12 oars double-banked. A commodious and substantial boat-house has been erected, with a...
Category: Articles
The Fisheries Exhibition
IT would probably savour of exaggeration to assert that this Exhibition is entitled to the first place in the long roll of similar undertakings, of which the Exhibition of 1851 was the grand beginning; but history will give it a high place...
Category: Articles
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1903
Jan. 8.—Voted the thanks of the Insti- tution, inscribed on vellum and framed, together with the sum of 21. each, to JAMES HEARNE and three other boatmen for gallantly putting off in a boat and rescuing the crew of four persons from the...
Category: Articles
The Thirty-First of January: A Day of Disaster
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to August 31st, 1953 ....
78,333 The Thirty-first of January: A Day of...
Category: Services
Your Letters
The future of maroons Sir - Are we to witness the total phasing out of the firing of maroons at our lifeboat stations? This issue must have been the subject of much debate during my periods at sea away from the UK, but I sincerely hope that...
Category: Correspondence
Looking to the Future
In June the RHLI asked Its supporters to help quantify its 'Vision and Ualues1 for the future.
Here Undrew Freemantle, Director of the Institution, reports on the outcomeM any thousands of people intimately involved in...
Category: Articles
News
We have lift offHovercraft to join RIMLI's fleet The first RNU rescue hovercraft will be in operation as early as January 2003, located in Morecambe. The decision to go ahead was made by the RNLI Executive Committee after successful...
Category: Articles