LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Our Financial Position
IN our Annual Report published in May last special attention was drawn to the fact that during the year 1890 the Committee had been compelled to spend as much as 33,354?. 13s. 10d in excess of their ordinary income, and that they had been...
Category: Articles
An Explosive Catch
MR. F. DOWNS, a member of the Whitstable inshore rescue boat crew, recently helped to save his own fishing boat from a possible explosion by a German magnetic mine.
His fishing boat, Harvester II, was found to have a German...
Category: Services
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1932.
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29 16 0 Mi HHa BHMi BBBBBH*HMB Construction and Repair of Life- boats, Carriages and...
Category: Accounts
Rebecca and Mary
On the 20th February a large schooner was observed making for Liverpool, and she came to anchor about five miles off St.
Anne's. As there was a strong gale blowing from the north-west and a very heavy sea running, a...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to ttem, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Highland Fling
During a very dense fog on the afternoon of the 7th January sound signals were heard not far from the shore, and although the weather was fine, there being only a slight ground swell, it was considered advisable to launch the Life-boat. The...
December
Launches 52 Lives rescued 54 DECEMBER 2ND. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 6.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel three miles south-east of St. Ives Head had signalled that she was sinking. A moderate...
Category: Services
Maritime Books (Liskeard)
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Lucy (1)
Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Poole Lifeboat station was informed by Portland RHQ at 0750 on Tuesday, August 23 that a Dutch warship had reported a 25' yacht, Lucy, with a broken rudder 23 miles south of Anvil...
Mafeking and a Fishing Smack
AT ten o'clock on the night of 18th October two vessels were seen to be aground and showing signals of distress on the sandbanks, in the mouth of the Humber, known as The Binks, and the Spurn Motor Life-boat was launched. A strong wind...