LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The National Life-Boat Institution
IN the year 1824 was established, in the City of London, mainly through the benevolent and untiring exertions of the late Sir WM. HILLARY, Bart., Mr. THOMAS WILSON, M.P., and others, the "ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOE THE PRESERVATION...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 26th June, 1930.
SIR GODFREY BARING, BT., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. d.
The Annie Ronald (of " Oak-...
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Gustaf E. Ruter (1)
Nov. 26TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. At 2.45 A . M . a message was received at Lerwick from the coastguard that the Swedish steamer Gustaf E. Ruter, of Gotenburg, was under observation fourteen miles W.N.W. of Fair Island. A whole gale...
Gustaf E. Ruter
Nov. 26TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. At 2.45 A . M . a message was received at Lerwick from the coastguard that the Swedish steamer Gustaf E. Ruter, of Gotenburg, was under observation fourteen miles W.N.W. of Fair Island. A whole gale...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 21st August, 1936.
PAID £20,695 3s. 4d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
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Arthur Margetts
On the 10th April the barge Arthur Margetts, of Rochester, bound for Brightlingsea with a cargo of crude oil, got into difficulties. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The barge dropped anchor, but it dragged, and she went...
Relief Brede:
Relief Brede: RNLB Enid of Yorkshire, a 33ft Brede for the RNLI's relief fleet, after her naming in Bridlington Harbour on June 22. photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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Four Fishing Boats
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - YOUGHAL, CO.
CORK. At 8.55 in the morning a message came that four fishing boats in the harbour were in danger of being swamped. A northnorth- east gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The motor...
The S.S. Markab N. and a Norwegian Tanker
Dover, Kent.—At 8.47 on the even- ing of the 24th of April, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the North Foreland radio station through the Dungeness pilot cutter that the S.S. Markab N., of...
The S.S. Eagle
HAYLE. — On the 24th March, the S.S. Eagle, of Neath, bound from that port to Hayle, with a cargo of coal, in making for the latter harbour, grounded on the bar, at about 9.30 A.M. she struck heavily, knocked away her rudder, and became...