LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"Prudential." Naming Ceremony of the New Ramsgate Motor Life-Boat
Naming Ceremony of the new Ramggate Motor Life-boat.
THE naming ceremony of this, the first of a new type of Motor Life-boat, took place on 14th April last in the Inner Harbour at Ramsgate. The full cost of the Boat,...
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Bluebell
Kirkcudbright. At 4.45 on the morning of the 19th of November, 1958, a message was received from a resident in Kirkcudbright that cries for heJp had been heard coming from the bayAt 5.12 the life-boat J. B. Couper of Glasgow was launched in...
The Glasgow Ball
AFTER the Edinburgh meeting the Prince of Wales travelled by special train to Glasgow and there attended a Ball, organised by the Glasgow Branch and held on board the s.s. Transylvania, lying in the Clyde. This is the second Ball which,...
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The Necessity of a Standard for Ships' Life-Boats
' For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" IN the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, which, conjointly with the Passengers' Act of 1852, now constitutes the whole law as re- gards all...
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Splash
The chief of operations has written to the Commissioners of Irish Lights thanking the keeper and crew of the Kish Bank lighthouse for their assistance during a five-hour search for a yacht in difficulties. Without their help it might have...
Forthcoming Articles
OWING to the space given in this number to the Rye disaster a number of articles which would otherwise have appeared have been held over until the next issue.
They include an article on the Life-boat Service in Iceland...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The inauguration of the Queen Victoria new Life-boat on this station, a description of which was given in the last number of The Life-boat Journal (pp. 528-9), took place on the 23rd August in the presence of a...
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Aries
DINGHY FOUND AFTER SEARCH AND TOWED IN Barrow, Lancashire. At 5.30 on the evening of the 1st June, 1963, members of the Arnside sailing club informed the coxswain that one of their members in the sailing dinghy Aries was...
C.W.S. Progress
Torbay, South Devon.—At 4.17 or* the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel C.W.S. Progress had reported that she had picked up a man in an exhausted state from a dinghy which had been...
A Small Boat (2)
MAY 1ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
At 5.30 in the afternoon the Dock Board reported a small boat, with two boys on board, off C.6 Red Buoy, in the Mersey, rapidly drifting out to sea. The No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and...