LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brownies of the 4Th Bishopbriggs Pack Glasgow Seen With Guider Mrs Sheena Smith Give the Income of Their Monthly Tuck Shop to the Lifeboat Service Gradually Th
Brownies of the 4th Bishopbriggs Pack, Glasgow, seen with Guider.
Mrs Sheena Smith, give the income of their monthly tuck shop to the lifeboat service. Gradually their contribution has increased: 1973, £3.40: 1974.... - View image in PDF
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Practical Hints for the Consideration and Guidance of Merchant - Seamen and Others Having Charge Or Command of Boats
1. Acquire the habit of sitting down in a boat, and never stand up to perform any work which may be done sitting.
2. Never climb the mast of a boat even in smooth water, to reeve halliards or for any other purpose, but...
Category: Articles
The Rye Life-Boat Disaster
The Mayor of Rye's Fund; Mcmcrials to the Seventeen Life-boatmen.
ON 22nd June a meeting was held between the Attorney-General (Sir William* Jowitt, E.G.) and the Trustees of the Fund which the Mayor of Rye raised for...
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Lily of the West
PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN.—The Lifeboat Annie and Mary of Manchester was launched at 9 A.M. on the 31st January to the assistance of the trawler Lily of the West, of Douglas, which had been disabled by loss of sails. A strong wind was blowing...
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent
Naming the Weston-super-Mare motor life-boat. With the Duke (left to right) are Mr. E. J.
McKaig, honorary secretary of the station, the Marquess of Bath, and the chief inspector of life-boats.
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
EEDCAB.—The Life-boat Brothers was launched for exercise at 2.15 P.M. on the 23rd June, 1892, in a moderate gale from the N. by E. and a rough sea, and, while under sail, the coble Wild Hose, of Eedcar, was seen, about two miles to leeward,...
Category: Services
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats carried out their eighth consecutive collection on behalf of the Institution on 3rd August, when the Cullercoats Life-boat held its quarterly road exercise and launch.
As in previous years, they...
Category: Donations
Mary Roe, of Quebec
During a strong wind from N.W., on the 17th June, the ship Mary Roe, of Quebec, struck on the Cefn Sidan Sands, about seven miles from this place. As soon as in- formation of the disaster was received, the City of Manchester life-boat was...
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XVI.—BROADSTAIRS.
The Samuel Morrison. Collins, 36 feet long, 9 feet 2 inches beam, 12 oars.
THE Broadstairs Life-boat of the Institution is one of the largest class, and well adapted for ser- vice as a...
Category: Articles
Message from the Duke of Kent
At the annual meeting, held on loth. July, Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, read a message from H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G., President of the Institution, in which His Royal Highness said: "I want to convey my...
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