LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Report
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, 13th day of March, 1883, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President of...
Category: Annual Reports
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 97. Lives rescued 84.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—On the even- ing of the 8th January the steamer City of Dublin, of Dublin, bound home from Hamburg with a general cargo, ran...
Category: Services
March
MARCH Launches 90. Lives rescued 132.
MARCH 2ND. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON. At 4.30 A.M. information was received from the King’s Harbour Master that signals of distress were being shewn in Jennycliffe Bay, and the motor life-boat...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WORKINGTON, CUMBERLAND.—In Con- sequence of a shipwreck having occurred here, with, loss of life, in September 1885, the local residents made application to the Institution to form a Life-boat esta- blishment at this port, and as a large...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
WITH the conclusion of the Procurator Fiscal's enquiry, which was held at Kirkwall on 10th June, 1969, it is possible for the Institution to publish its own findings on the circumstances leading to the loss of the Longhope...
Category: Articles
The Great Storm In November, 1893
AT irregular periods, mercifully with a lapse of several years between them, storms of wide extent and hurricane force visit our coasts. The violence of these great gales and the enormous area affected by them is out of all proportion to the...
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Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, Dec. 6, 1855. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.' Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read and...
Category: Committee
Memories of the Sea and the Life-Boat Service
It was intended to resume the series of " Honorary Workers of the Institution," in which twelve articles have already been published, the last appearing in TheLifeboat for August, 1927 —with an article on the work of Mr. Ernest...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service. Its Payments at a Glance, Its Receipts at a Glance
ITS PAYMENTS AT A GLANCE How each £100 of the Institution's payments was made in 1958 £ s. d.
27 2 4 — — — New construction 36 16 1 — - —- —•- ———- Maintenance of life-boats and stations (including depot)...
Category: Accounts
Services of Life-Boats
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the 22d March the schooner Heinrkh Gerdes, of Rostock, on running for the harbour of Berwick, struck on the bar, and was driven ashore south of the entrance to the Tweed. It was blowing a heavy gale from east-north-east,...
Category: Services