LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1887
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD GEORGE HAMILTON, M.P., FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY, m THE CHAIR.
1.—Moved by The Eight Hon. LORD GEORGE HAMILTON, M.P.
Seconded by The Eight Hon.
The EARL OF...
Category: Meetings
Life-Boats of Six Countries on the Thames
LIFE-BOATS have already been seen on the Thames. In the Pageant of the Sea Services of the War, which was held on the Thames, in 1919, with the King in his Royal Barge at the head, two Life-boats took part, the steam Life-boat James Stevens...
Category: Articles
A Working Man on the Life-Boat Service
THE following letter was received last October from Ashington, the mining village in Northumberland. The Cresswell Lifeboat Station IB not far away, and most of the Cresswell Crew have at one time or another worked in theAshington mines. The...
Category: Articles
The prototype fast afloat boat (right) may have superficial similarities with the Arun class, but she was the result of a 'clean-sheet' design approach.
The prototype fast afloat boat (right) may have superficial similarities with the Arun class, but she was the result of a 'clean-sheet' design approach.
Apart from being much latger at 17m overall and with roughly... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1871
HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION for the current...
Category: Meetings
Value of the Self-Righting Property In Life-Boats
IN the year 1851 the first self-righting Life-boat was built by Mr. JAMES BEECHING, the well-known boat-builder, at Yarmouth, who had obtained the prize of 1007., which had been offered in the previous year by Admiral the DUKE of...
Category: Articles
Life-Boats on the Air. Broadcasts In 1949
Ix December, 1948, the secretary of the Institution, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A., broadcast a talk "Exploits of the old Sailing Life- boats." This talk was on the air the day after the motor life-boat St. Allans...
Category: Articles
Tyger and The American Steamer Edward R. Squibb
FEBRUARY 15TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
At 3.15 in the morning the coastguard reported a message from the East Goodwin Light-vessel. She asked for the life-boat to be sent as she had on board survivors from a vessel which had been...
The French Life-Boat Service. A Survey and a Tribute
By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
I HAVE received a copy of a pamphlet giving a brief historical survey of the work of our sister society in France, from the pen of Commandant Granjon de Lepiney,...
Category: Articles
Atlantis Adventure Makes Fast In the Safety of Baltimore Harbour After Being Given Assistance By the Town's Relief Tyne Class Lifeboat. the 60Ft Sailing Vessel Had
Atlantis Adventure makes fast in the safety of Baltimore Harbour after being given assistance by the town's relief Tyne class lifeboat. The 60ft sailing vessel had run into difficulties south of Fastnet Rock in a rough sea with a swell... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs