LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 3rd September, 1863. Captain Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Report of Captain DAVID ROBERTSON, K.N., the Assistant-Inspector of Lifeboats of the Institution, of the 3rd...
Category: Committee
New Life-Boats
ABERDOVEY, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABER- SOCH, CARNARVONSHIRE ; ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE ; GHIMSBY, LINCOLNSHIRE ; LITTLEHAMPTON, SUSSEX ; RLIOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY ; SIIOREHAM, SUSSEX ; ST.
AGNES, SCILLY ISLANDS ; SOUTHEND, CAXTYRE ;...
Category: Inaugurations
A Remarkable Life-Boat Launch
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 120 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 56 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1933 .... 63,450 A Remarkable Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Pass them on...
The letters regarding 'passing on' THE LIFEBOAT interested me as I too have done this for a number of years, taking the journal to our local doctors' surgery and, more recently, sending them on a...
Category: Correspondence
Awards Presented at the Royal Festival Hall
Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting the Committee of Management has awarded ten Bars to the Gold Badge and forty-eight Gold Badges.
BAR TO THE GOLD BADGE Mrs Margaret Driscoll Burnmouth Branch: Honorary...
Category: Awards
Penlee: the Loss of Solomon Browne and Her Crew December 19 1981
PENLEE LIFEBOAT, the 47ft Watson class Solomon Browne, with her coxswain, Trevelyan Richards, and all on board, was lost on the night of Saturday December 19 during a service to the 1,400 ton coaster Union Star, registered in...
Category: Articles
Services of Life-Boats
HARTLEPOOL. SEAMEN'S LIFE-BOAT.—This boat, of the establishment of which, by the seamen of Hartlepool, we gave a description in our last number, has soon had opportunities for rendering essential service, and so of effecting the humane...
Category: Services
New Life-Boats
ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK. — It will be remembered by our readers that in a former number of the Life-boat Journal (207), we mentioned that the boat on this station had been replaced by a new Life-boat of the " Norfolk and Suffolk" type...
Category: Inaugurations
Letters
Speedboat on Pye Sands • It was with very great interest that I read of the gallantry awards to members of the crew of Edian Courtauld for their successful rescue of a speedboat's complement on August 15, 1973 ('Lifeboat Services'...
Category: Correspondence
Ceremonies
Littlestone - Atlantic 21 Lady Dart and Long Life II Littlestone's latest Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable, Lady Dart and Long Life II, was named and dedicated at a ceremony at the town's lifeboat station on 6 July...
Category: Inaugurations