LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Committee of Management Members
THE Committee of Management of the Institution welcomes five new mem- bers.
Rear-Admiral K. St. B. Collins, C.B., O.B.E., D.S.C., R.N. (Retd.), was Hydrographer of the Navy from 1955 to 1960, when he retired from the Royal...
Category: Committee
History laid to rest
The Lifeboat Support Centre at RNLI Headquarters houses Engineering and Supply, Finance and the Sales company but, during building work in 2003, an 18th-century Baptist burial ground was unearthed here. Analysis of the excavated remains has...
Category: Articles
Feremosca, of Genoa
During a southerly gale and in a heavy sea, on the 3rd Jan., 1869, the Yarmouth beachmen observed a vessel apparently on the Scroby Sands. The large life-boat, the Mark Lane, was at once launched and taken in that direction, but when near...
Two Yachts
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
The Central Appeals Committee
THE first target of the Central Appeals Committee is to raise over £75,000 of new money during the present financial year. The R.N.L.I.'s estimate of income provides for receipt of this amount, which is part of the £550,000...
Category: Committee
Raymond Baxter
Raymond Baxter (3rd from I) presented the RNLI's public relations awards at this year's show to (I to r): Colin Watson for photographic work for the RNLI; John Mills of Formula One Films for his voluntary work in producing the film... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tahi-Tahi
A flare for rescue in darknessWalmer lifeboat crew proved they are ready for anything 24/7 when they were paged at 2 o'clock one morning in mid-winter. The lives of two yachtsmen depended on the crew being wide awake and alert throughout...
From Foreign Societies
Japan.
THE Imperial Japanese Life-saving Institution issued in March of this year a pamphlet, written in English, giving a brief history of the Japanese Life-boat Service since the chief priest of the Kotohira Shrine in the...
Category: Articles
Book Reviews
"English Coastal Evolution." By E M.
Ward (Methuen, 6s. 8d net).
Reviewed by A. W. Lewis, the Consulting Engineer of the Institution.
COASTAL changes concern the Institution...
Category: Articles
The Latvian Steamer Helena Faulbaums
Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, and Barra Island, Hebrides.—On the night of the 26th October the Latvian steamer Helena Faulbaums, of Riga, bound light from Liverpool to Blyth, was caught in a sudden and exceptionally severe storm near Jura...