LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 6th Aug. 1857. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., 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...
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R.N.L.I. Medals for Irb Service
Mr. Robert Stewart and Mr. Andrew Scott of Amble have become the first men ever to be awarded medals for gallantry by the R.N.L.I. for a service carried out in one of the Institution's inshore rescue boats. The service was a combined...
Category: Services
Reliance, of Whtiby
On the 11th February, the Yarmouth surf life-boat went off in reply to signals of distress from a vessel on the North Beach. A heavy gale was blowing from the S.S.E. at the time. When the life- boat arrived alongside, the sea was making a...
The S.S. Ayrshire Coast, of Liverpool
NOVEMBER 24TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON, AND WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
A heavy south-westerly gale was blowing. The seas were very heavy. Visibility was poor. At 5.35 in the morning information came to the Torbay life-boat...
LIFE-BOAT QUIZ
Compiled by Grahame Farr with the help of members of the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society 1—Which life-boat station is farthest from the shore? 2—Where are old life-boat houses now used as (a) a library, and (b] an aquarium? 3—Which...
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Special delivery
'HE CHANGED MY LIFE'
I noticed the sad passing of former Newhaven Coxswain/Mechanic Len Patten (pictured) in the latest magazine and I would like it if this message could be passed on to his family and even used to...
Category: Articles
A Barge (1)
12th June. A barge had been reported ashore, but nothing could be found.— Rewards, £7 2s. 6d..
Our courageous community
It was the last Annual General Meeting for our Chairman, but the event was also a day of firsts as RNLI supporters and staff came together at a new venue
On 19 May, after 12 years at the Barbican in London, the AGM came...
Category: Articles
Inshore Rescue Boats on Service
From ist April to 3Oth June, 1965, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 104 times. On 27 occassions - described in chronological order below - they were able K) rescue people in difficulties.
Mudeford, Hampshire....
Category: Services
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY...
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