LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 9th January, 1920.
Mr. HENRY B. FARGUS in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions:— £. s. d.
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (don.) 5 - - CIVIL...
Category: Committee
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept hi roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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Eleventh RNLI national lottery winners
THE ELEVENTH RNLI national lottery was drawn at Poole HQ on January 30 by Mr P. H. Byrt, manager of Poole branch of Marks and Spencer, a company which has given considerable support to the lifeboat service in a number of ways. Poole lifeboat...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Empire Bridge
MARCH 15TH - 17TH. - LYTHAM-ST.
ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 9.30 A.M.
information was received from the resident naval officer at Preston, and confirmed by the coastguard, that a vessel was aground, and at 10...
Lightvessel Breaks Adrift
AT 9.49 on the evening of the 12th November, 1961, the Deal coastguard informed the Walmer honorary secre- tary that the East Goodwin lightvessel, which had been buffeted by heavy seas, had broken adrift from her moorings and was driving...
Category: Services
New Assistant Secretary Appointed
MR. J. R. ATTERTON, has been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Institution.
Mr. Atterton, who is aged 44, first joined the Institution's staff in 1936 and worked in the Chief Inspector's depart- ment, and...
Category: Committee
H.M. Trawler Epine and the S.S. Waterloo
JULY 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At about 4.15 P.M. the naval authorities asked the life-boat to go out to a trawler which was coming into the roadstead with survivors, some injured, from a vessel which had been sunk by...
New Life-Boat Engines. The First Life-Boat to Be Fitted With Wireless
By Captain Howard F- J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
IN 1922 the Institution, which, had then had nearly twenty years of experience with Motor Life-boats, designed an engine to meet the special and...
Category: Articles
Atlantic 21
Atlantic 21 Blenwatch'Superb! It's a great lifeboat.' Gary Jones, Senior Helmsman, Enniskillen. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs