LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat
Three saved by D class as casualty breaks up A service by Bembridge's D class inshore lifeboat has led to a letter from the Chairman of the Institution congratulating the helmsman and crew members for their courage and teamwork - which...
The Danish Motor Fishing Vessel Opal (1)
HUGE WAVE UPSET LIFE-BOAT ON the evening of 20th January last year the Danish motor fishing vessel Opal sailed from Buckle and set a course for the Fladden fishing grounds. At about 10.30 p.m. it was discovered that the engine room was...
New Superintendent Engineer
MB. A. C. BUTCHER has been succeeded as superintendent engineer by Com- mander (E.) R. A. Gould, O.B.E., R.N.
Commander Gould entered the Navy as a boy artificer in 1915, and saw much service in the last war. He was engin-...
Category: Committee
The Gardens of Sheffield Park
IN 1950, for the second year, the famous gardens of Sheffield Park, Sussex, were opened to the public on behalf of the Life-boat Service, by the kindness of their owners, Captain and Mrs. A. Gran- ville Soames. They were open for seven...
Category: Donations
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
KINGSTOWN, IRELAND.—This Life-boat station was transferred to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION by the Dublin Billast Board in January, 1862.
In April of the same year the Institution replaced the Life-boat then at...
Category: Articles
A Motor Vessel
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—13th April.
A motor vessel had collided with the beacon on Platte Rock, but must have gone on her way, as she could not be found.—Rewards, £9 Is..
Hattie B, of Liverpool
On the 10th Feb- ruary the Courtinacsherry Life-boat, the City of Dublin, rendered assistance to the brigantine Hattie B, of Liverpool, which had got disabled in a gale of wind, and been driven on the "Black Tom" Rock in...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Work
ITS WORK.
HPHE Institution is constantly occupied in building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the Coasts of the United Kingdom: in paying...
Category: Advertisement
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Category: Advertisement
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting of the Governors of the Royal National Life-boat Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 26th of March, 1957. The Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, was in the...
Category: Meetings