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The Owers Lightvessel.

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

At 11.30 a.m. on 2/th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the Owers lightvessel. The lifeboat Canadian Pacific was launched at 11.44 m a smooth sea. The tide was flooding. The...

Focus on . . . . Great Yarmouth and Gorleston

Date: December 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 410

There she lies in the Gorleston boathouse—a sturdy, tubular creature, greyblack like the seals on the nearby Scroby sands who, at her approach, dive and slither into the sea, splashing noisily.

Jack Bryan, mechanic of the...

Category: Articles

The S.S. Batjan

Date: May 1915

Volume: 23

Issue: 256

The Life-boat Charles Dibdin was launched shortly after midnight on the 2nd-3rd Decem- ber, in answer to a wireless message stating that a steamer was in distress and firing signals for assistance. A strong S.W. gale was blowing at the time,...

The Pinnace, Pinnace

Date: September 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 425

Cromer, Norfolk - At 5.27 p.m. on 2nd March, 1968, the coxswain and motor mechanic saw distress flares from a small vessel two miles north west of the life-boathouse. The lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed was launched at 5.35 in a light north...

Mr. J. F. Jellico, Hon. Secretary, Port of Liverpool Branch

Date: November 1925

Volume: 26

Issue: 285

ME. J. F. JELLICO, the Honorary Secre- tary of the Port of Liverpool Branch, died early in August after a long illness.

He was in his sixty-ninth year. Mr.

Jelliro had been the Honorary Secretary (f that...

Category: Obituaries

Captain William Sinclair Coxswain of the Kirkwall Lifeboat With the Station's New Arun Mickie Salvesen

Date: Winter 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 507

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Captain William Sinclair, coxswain of the Kirkwall lifeboat, with the station's new Arun Mickie Salvesen. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

From the Blind

Date: Winter 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 353

THE Institution has received a gift of £4 from the chapel collections at the St. Dunstan's Training Centre at Ovingdean, Sussex. This is the train- ing centre for both men and women who have been blinded on war service..

Category: Donations

The Latvian Steamer Everolanda

Date: March 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 329

The Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 9.35 P.M. on the 22nd November a message was received from the port doctor at Grimsby that the Latvian steamer Everolanda, of Riga, at anchor S.E. of Spurn light-vessel, had wirelessed that a, woman on board...

A Hint to the Swimmer How to Save a Man's Life

Date: August 1879

Volume: 10

Issue: 113

To THE EDITOR OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL.

SIR,—Many years ago, in India, I was walking home from mess on a darkish, night; I was dressed in uniform, and had on boots, spurs, and straps. As I passed a good sized tank, or...

Category: Correspondence

The S.S. Skandinavian (1)

Date: August 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 133

RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS. — At 2.30 A.M. on the 11th April, during strong N.Jf.E. wind and a heavy sea, the Goodwin and Gull Lightships fired signals.

The Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, and the harbour steam-tug Aid, as well...