LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th September, 1894.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
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Honours for Rotherham Branch
Alderman John Dickinson, J.P., who has been chairman of the Rotherham Branch of the Institution for very many years, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honours, and in June was made an Honorary...
Category: Articles
A battle for survival
Two fathers stranded at sea were about to give up hope of seeing their children again after a jetskiing trip went horribly wrong ...
Battered by huge waves after their watercraft sank and now...
Category: Articles
Photographs Which Capture the True Nature the Weather In Which Lifeboats Operate Are Rare
Photographs which capture the true nature of the weather in which lifeboats operate are rare - but this picture of the Portrush (Ireland Division) Arun Richard Evans (Civil Service No.39) on 13 February 1989 certainly does.
Category: Photographs
Port Isaac Ilb Stood By While An Attempt Was Made on October 5 1975 to Rescue Bullocks Which Had Fallen Down the Cliff at Port Quin
Port Isaac ILB stood by while an attempt was made, on October 5, 1975, to rescue bullocks which had fallen down the cliff at Port Quin. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of E. J. Watts, Rock. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bronze Medal for Fowey Coxswain
AT 4.10 in the morning of March 23rd, the coastguard rang up Fowey life-boat station to say that he could see signals of distress in Par Bay, and thirty minutes later the reserve motor lifeboat, The Brothers, put out. A whole gale was...
Category: Services
Swedish Lifeboat Arrives for Trials
Swedish lifeboat arrives for trials The Swedish Victoria class lifeboat, which is to be trialled by the RNLI as part of the RNLI's Lifeboats 2000 boat development programme, arrived in Poole on 15 February.
She was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Golf Competitions for the Life-Boats
IN 1931 an appeal was made to the principal golf clubs in Kent, Surrey and Sussex to hold a competition in aid of the Life-boat Service. The Institution offered to present a silver and enamel Spoon as prize (two Spoons being offered if a...
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An American Aeroplane
FEBRUARY 13TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. An American aeroplane had come down in the sea and had sunk, but an airrescue boat rescued the pilot. - Rewards, £12..
Rnli News
Open Days The Open Days at the RNLI's Poole Headquarters and Depot, which were postponed from last year due to building work, have been scheduled for August.
Both sites, including the new building, will be open on...
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