LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Doubled Annuities
LAST year the Institution greatly increased the retaining fees paid to the officers of life-boats. It also increased the payments made to crews and launchers for exercise launches, and brought in a new scale of rewards for services.
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Question In the House
In the House of Commons on llth December, 1967, there was a written question put by Mr. Edward Rowlands, M.P. for Cardiff North, on the R.N.L.L Mr. Rowlands asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he would take steps to provide a...
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Anstruther, Fifeshire. —• During the morning of the 19th December, 1938, it was learned that the boatman who took stores to May Island had been unable, owing to bad weather, to make the trip for five days, and that the twenty-eight people on...
Letter
• I was interested in the note 'What is a covenant?' on page 687 of THE LIFE- BOAT for September, 1969. It implies that unless the payer suffers tax at the full rate the covenant is not applicable, whereas as I understand the...
Category: Correspondence
Endeavour, Progress, Easter Morn, Prosperity, Venus, Gallilee, Provider
FEB. 18TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning a fresh N.W. wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. It was breaking heavily from the Pier Ends to the Rock Buoy, and anxiety was felt for the safety of nine of the local...
Mary Elizabeth
GREENCASTLE.—On the 19th February, at 5 P.M., a schooner was observed at anchor, in a very dangerous position, off Ennishowen Head. The wind was blowing strongly from the S.S.W., and the sea was very heavy. The Greencastle Life-boat went off...
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Two inshore lifeboats save man cut off by tide A service by Redcar's Atlantic 21 and D class to a man cut off by the / x t i d e some five miles away from the station has earned Atlantic Crew member Tony Wild, D class helmsman Mark...
The S.S. Cairnmona
SUNK IN TWENTY MINUTES.
_ _ Peterhead, and Aberdeen, Aberdeen- shire.—At 11.15 P.M. on the 30th October, 1939, a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was sinking three miles east of Rattray...
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The S.S. Sylvafield
DOCTOR TO A SCALDED MAN Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of February 12th, 1947, a firm of shipping agents in Belfast tele- phoned requesting the help of the life- boat to take a doctor out to a vessel at anchor in Carrick...