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Meetings of the Committee

Date: January 1855

Volume: 02

Issue: 15

Thursday, 17th Aug., 1854. A Special Meeting of the General Committee was held this day. His Grace the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., President, in the Chair.

Confirmed the Minutes of the previous...

Category: Committee

The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution

Date: May 1876

Volume: 09

Issue: 100

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a roan heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides himself.

Category: Articles

Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management

Date: September 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 299

Thursday, 17th January, 1929.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.

Decided to forward to the South Holland Life-boat Society a message expressing regret and sympathy in connexion with the loss of the...

Category: Committee

Abstract from the Meetings of the Committee for the Year 1855

Date: January 1857

Volume: 03

Issue: 23

Thursday, Jan. 3, 1856.—THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.

Head and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance, Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com- mittees.

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Category: Committee

Painting 'The Lynmouth Lifeboat Service 1899' By Mark R Myers Rsma

Date: Winter 1978

Volume: 45

Issue: 463

MY INTEREST IN PAINTING an incident from the famous Lynmouth lifeboat service to Forrest Hall goes back to the time when I was boatswain in the little square-rigged replica of Nonsuch ketch.

We were on passage from Falmouth...

Category: Articles

"The Dutch Life-Boat Service."

Date: February 1921

Volume: 24

Issue: 272

By H. de BOOY, Secretary of the North and South Holland Life-Saving Society.

No doubt ships have stranded and lives have been lost and saved on the coast of Holland from times immemorial, but it was the year 1824 before a...

Category: Articles

American Journey By Patrick Howarth

Date: Summer 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 465

RECENTLY I VISITED the USA in my capacity as secretary of the American/ British Lifeboat Appeal Committee.

I was able to make my journey at no cost to the appeal through the generosity of Transworld Airlines and was...

Category: Articles

The Wild Side of Scarborough

Date: August 1900

Volume: 17

Issue: 197

I LOOK out of my window, and find that the snow is falling thickly, and that the wind is blowing in from the sea. I raise the Bash and listen, and hear the roar of the rising tide upon the beach. It is the boom of the growing...

Category: Articles

The Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition

Date: August 1920

Volume: 24

Issue: 270

THE third year of the Essay Competition has brought a number of interesting and very readable essays, and although scarcely up to the excellent standard of the first two years, it can be said that only in a few cases did they fail to show an...

Category: Articles

The Royal Bank of Scotland

Date: Summer 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 553

And how would Sir like to pay? A Lifeboats MasterCard will do nicely.

Because if you switch from your current credit card to a Lifeboats MasterCard today, you could help the RNLI buy the essential items...

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