ON SUNDAY MORNING, November 18, the 50ft Thames lifeboat stationed at Islay and the 52ft Barnett lifeboat stationed at Barra Island were capsized while going to the help of a 299 ton Danish coaster whose cargo of marble chips had shifted.<...
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ITS our last January Number we gave a short account and illustration of the Boat's Fluid Compass, adopted by this Institution, and in this Number we insert an interesting paper on the " Mariner's Compass," with which we...
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Mr. Loris N. PARKEK has been elected an Honorary Life Governor of the Institution in recognition of his generous and valuable services to the Life-boat Cause in writing for the Institution the Life-boat play " Their Business in Great...
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FLEETWOOD.—On the 16th June the Life-boat Maude Pickup was launched at 8 A.M. in response to signals of distress and proceeded in tow of the harbour steam-tug Brock, through a tremendous sea, in the direction of the Sunderland Bank, in...
JANUARY 9TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE, AND HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. At about 5 A.M. information was received through the Cullercoats Wireless Station that a vessel was in distress. The weather was calm and fine, but cold. The motor life-boat Louisa...
BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—It will be remembered that in the last number of the Life-boat Journal we mentioned that the boat on this Station had been replaced by a new Life-boat of the latest self-righting type provided for from the legacy of...
Category: Inaugurations
Dungeness, Kent. — 13th December, 1937. A yacht had been reported in distress and drove ashore. Her crew were rescued by the coastguard rocket life - saving appliances. —• Rewards, £16 14*. 6d..
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—24th March, 1938.
A leaking steamer had had to be beached on the Shipwash Sands, but had been helped by a tug.—Rewards, £22 14*. 6d..
SPECIAL APPEALS Just before the AGM at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on May 21 (which will be reported fully in the Autumn issue), Mr Roy Bailhache, Chairman of the Jersey branch, presented a cheque for £100,000—the largest single...
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THERE are more ways than one of launching a Life-boat. Perhaps the most elementary way now in use is that of pushing her into the water over skids thrown down on the foreshore.
The quickest, and therefore the most...
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