LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...

JANUARY Launches 71. Lives rescued 221.

JANUARY 3RD. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. A fishing boat was caught in a S.E. gale with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat K.T.J.S. was launched at 10.20 A.M., found the boat five...

Saturday, 15th May, 1897.

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

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.

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

BARMOUTH.—A large vessel was seen stranded on St. Patrick's Causeway on the morning of the 24th March, 1895. A heavy gale was blowing from S.W., the weather was thick and the sea rough. The Life- boat Jones Gibb put off at 8.15, and on...

Launches 103. Lives rescued 130.

November Meeting.

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the evening of the 1st October a message was received from Horse Sand Fort that a vessel was stranded about two...

WHEN the Life-boat Service was founded, at a meeting in the City of London, in 1824, King George IV became its Patron, and five of the royal dukes its vice-patrons—York, Clarence, Sussex, Cambridge and Gloucester.

So the...

Greater London.

Film premiere attended by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square. (A full account appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat.) BATTERSEA.—The Rev. P. H. Jones, C.B.E., R.N....

PRESERVATION OF LITE PROM SHIPWRECK.

Ob«Me.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C.Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...