Rupert, lifeboat collector par excellence: Captain and Mrs F. Wilson's African grey parrot does his trick of duty at their front gate. Being a talkative bird, he is very persuasive and in just three weeks last August, collected more than... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
MONTROSE. — The No. 1. Life-boat, Mincing Lane, put off, and, with considerable difficulty, rescued the crew of 6 men from the schooner Bellalie, of Nantes, which had parted from her anchors, and had gone ashore off Montrose during strong...
On the 19th July the motor yacht Ena, of Greenock, bound from Douglas to Greenock with eight persons on board, was in difficulty owing to trouble with her engine, two and a half miles W.S.W.
of Portpatrick. A strong S.W....
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 24th day of March, 1888, His Grace The DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, E.G., President of the...
Category: Annual Reports
A NEW motor life-boat, the gift of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, has been completed this year and stationed at Walmer, Kent. There are now six motor life-boats on the coast built out of the Fund—three on the English coast, at Walmer and...
Category: Inaugurations
Rising tide RAMSEY COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Silloth lifeboat station at 1255 on Thursday February 11 that a man was stuck in the salmon nets at Dornock, two miles east of the River Annan, on the north side of the Solway...
0 Young World Productions, London, have produced a punch-out model and painting book covering old and new life-boats of R.N.L.I.
interest. Copies are obtainable from Life-boat House, 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I,...
Category: Articles
A MAN who can truly be said to have devoted his working life to the Life-boat Service, and whose name is likely always to figure prominently in the history of life-boat design and construction, has retired from the full-time service of the...
Category: Articles
Fig. I: Bilge keels, port and starboard, take weight of hull so that mild steel ballast keel can be slid into place.. - View image in PDF
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MARCH 3RD. - NEW BRIGHTON , CHESHIRE. At 6.25 P.M . the Hoylake coastguard reported a motor boat in difficulties on Burbo Bank, and the No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson left her moorings at 6.45 P.M. A moderate S.E. wind was...