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A Rowing Boat (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frin- ton, Essex. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 4th November, 1961, an antici- patory message was received at Clacton from the coastguard that two men in a local rowing boat were overdue. They had set out...
Lucinde of Memel
On the night of the 17th September, 1859, the Prussian brig iMcinde, of Metnel, ran ashove off Mis- ner Coastguard Station on the Suffolk coast.
Intelligence of the same was immediately conveyed to Southwold, with the...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 2nd May, 1872. His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.C., President of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
On the Variations of the Reading of the Barometer and the Weather In the Months of September, October and November, 1865
By JAMES GLAISHER, ESQ, F H.S. , THE variations in the readings of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the period from September 12 to November 30, making altogether eighty days, are shown in the accompanying diagram and...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st October to 31st December, 1938
Greater London.
Film premiere attended by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square. (A full account appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat.) BATTERSEA.—The Rev. P. H. Jones, C.B.E., R.N....
Category: Branches
United States Life-Saving Service
AT the close of the fiscal year which terminated on the 30th June, 1905, the Life-Saving Establishment of the United States comprised 277 stations, an increase of 4 stations as compared with the previous year, and the whole of these stations...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUHTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Patron His Most Gracious Majesty the King
Chairman— H eputg= Ibairman— COLONEL SIR FrrzRov CLAYTON, K.C.V.O., V.P. . SIR JOHN CAMKROX LAMB, C.B., C.M.G.,...
Category: Advertisement
Per Mare, Per Terram
THE above well-known motto of the British "Royal Marines " has been nobly illustrated by the deeds of that dis- tinguished corps in every part of the globe, and wherever, on land or sea, its services have been required, its famous...
Category: Articles
Fanny, of Salcombe
On January 3 the schooner Fanny, of Salcombe, bound from Cardiff to Barbadoes, became a total wreck in Tramore Bay, county Waterford. The vessel had been observed, soon after noon, trying to beat out of the Bay, into "which a heavy sea,...
Clio
At 9.15 P.M. on the 14th January the Cox- swain of the Life-boat Anna Maria Leesnw lights on Cairnbulge Briggs, about two miles from Fraserburgh. He immedi- ately ordered the launch of the Life-boat and proceeded to the vicinity, where he...