LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Weather
THE weather in the British Islands forces itself so much on our attention, and is naturally such a constant topic of dis- cussion, that papers on the subject, especially when written by any one having access to the records of the Royal...
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Donaghadee, Co. Down.—About three in the morning on the 15th of March, 1950, the Orlock Head coastguard tele- phoned that red flares had been seen to the eastward. A quarter of an hour later the life-boat Civil Service No. 5 left her...
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FOOD TO A STARVING ISLAND Aith, Shetlands. — For nearly three weeks the island of Papa Stour had been cut off from the mainland and the islanders were starving. On January llth, 1947, the food executive officer for Shetland asked for the...
Union
At 7 P.M. on the 29th October the •watchman reported that a vessel was ashore on the Middle Binks. The crew of the Life-boat were assembled and the boat proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the schooner Union, of Portsmouth. She was...
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 18th day of March, 1858, Vice-Admiral the DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, KG., F.R.S., in the Chair, The following Report of the...
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PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 3 SUMMARY OF THE YEAR'S WORK 4 RESCUE BY BOARDING BOAT IN NEAR GALE 5 RESCUE...
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Presentation to the Montrose Life-Boatmen (From the Dundee Advertiser, 21st April, 1884)
FOR years past the Montrose life-boat crews, by their readiness at all times to proceed to sea to the rescue of the wrecked, and the success which has at all times attended their labours, have earned for Montrose the reputation of being, so...
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Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
ON the 23rd May last, H.R.H. the DUKE OF EDINBURGH presided at the Anniversary Meeting of this Society, at the Mansion House. His Royal Highness was sup- ported on the occasion by the LORD MAYOR, the DUKE or MARLBOROUGH (Pre- sident of the...
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The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
IN a recent number of this Journal, after explaining the reasons which had led to the transfer of the Life-boat Establishments of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society to the Royal National Life-boat...
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Lifeboat Services from Page 46
from page 46 yacht at 2006 and a lifeboatman was put on board. Six of the passengers were transferred to the lifeboat and the yacht taken in tow to Weymouth where the six were taken to hospital for a medical check.
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