LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Crossword—3
The winner of the January crossword—there was only one correct solution submitted—was: Mr. F. Ackroyd, 68 Horncastle Road, Boston, Lines. Solution to crossword was: Across: 1-Lifeboatman; 7-Banana, 8-Align, 9-Nod, 12-Emmie, 13-Parody,...
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Boat Accidents
AMONGST the applications for reward from the National Shipwreck Institution, one was recently made for saving the lives of several persons who had been upset in a boat in consequence of one of their number climbing to the mast-head to reeve...
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Nil Desperadum
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
The Ro-Ro Ferry Chartres
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Life-Boats and Life-Saving Apparatus In the United States of America
WE have in previous numbers of the Life-boat Journal given accounts of the Life-saving Institutions of France and Germany, and have referred to those in other maritime countries of Europe. We feel sure that equal interest will be felt in a...
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The Lizzie Morton, of St. Ives
LTNMOUTH AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.— On the 19th March the Lizzie Morton, of St. Ives, encountered a heavy squall, when off Lynmouth, which carried away her foremast, bowsprit, and bulwarks; in a helpless state she subsequently drifted before a...
A Ship
BALLYW ALTER, Go. DOWN.—On the 11tb.
March, at midnight, signals of distress were shown from a ship ashore on the Long Bock opposite Ballywalter, and in response thereto the Life-boat Admiral Henry Meynett was promptly...
Syren
CAISTER, NORFOLK. — Large flares were seen in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand, during a strong Southerly wind and heavy sea, on the 18th of January.
The No. 1 Life-boat, Covent Garden, was launched at 1.45 A.M., and...
Industry
PORT LOGAN.—A telegram was received on the morning of the 26th January reporting that a vessel was flying a signal of distress about four miles W. of the Mull of Galloway. The Life-boat Edinburgh and B. M. Ballantyne was launched at 10.15...
Kate
WHITEHAVEN.—On the evening of the 17th September about 5 o'clock, at about half tide, there was a strong southwesterly wind and a heavy sea. The schooner Kate, of Peel, 122 tons register,was coming into Whitehaven Harbour light, for coal...