LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Body Han, Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the deration and...
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December
Launches 34. Lives rescued 34.
DECEMBER 1 ST. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
Shortly before mid-day the naval authorities telephoned that the ten-year-old daughter of the lightkeeper at South Lighthouse, Fair...
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General Practitioner on the Lifeboat By O C Parry- Jones Honorary Medical Adviser Moelfre
LITTLE DID I THINK some 20 years ago when I started in general practice that I should be in active service for more than a decade as a lifeboat doctor or HMA (honorary medical adviser), as we are called. Years later I asked the now retired...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded In 1880
Jan. 1.—Voted the Silver Medal of the Insti- tution, with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, to the EARL of DUMORE, and 51. to three fishermen, in acknowledgment of their gallant services in putting off in an open boat, and proceeding,...
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Lieut.-Col. Sir John Collie, C.M.G., M.D., J.P.
Lieut.-Col. Sir John Collie, C.M.G., M.D., J.P., the distinguished physician and the authority on malingering, died on 3rd April at the age of seventy-five.
He had been a member of the committee of management since April,...
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Four Dinghies
FOUR DINGHIES CAPSIZE St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At 3.55 p.m.
on Saturday the 24th August, 1963, the Eyemouth coastguard informed the honorary secretary at St. Abbs that two sailing dinghies had capsized off Eyemouth.
H.R.H. Prince George Naming the "Greater London."
HRH Prince George Naming The "Greater London". - View image in PDF
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Record of Rescues In 1966
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August September October November December Number of times life-boats called out on service 1966 70...
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Bertolemeo Cerruti, of Genoa
On the 27th October, another severe 1 gale sprang up from the N.N.E., and the ! barque Bertolemeo Cerruti, of Genoa, which ! was riding at anchor, was observed to I drift rapidly on shore, the sea soon ; making a complete breach over her....
Notices of Books. The Mercantile Marine Magazine
AMONGST the numerous valuable periodical publications, magazines, and reviews, with which the literature of this country abounds, is it not strange that, until but recently, there should have been none exclusively representing and devoted to...
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