LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
May Meeting.
St. Helier, Jersey.—Five men left St.
Helier on the 31st March, in a converted ship's...
Category: Services
Happy People: Rescued Two and Saved Boat
TWO MEN had been spending Sunday January 16 fishing off the western end of the Isle of Wight in an open 17ft dory. When, at 1530, they started to prepare for the return passage to Poole, their outboard engine failed. They were reported...
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Rosa
JANUARY 24TH. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.
At about 1.30 P.M. the sea began to make with the ebb tide, and soon it was breaking across the bar. The weather was cold, and a fresh E.S.E. wind was blowing. As the motor fishing boat...
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of e, life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (Tmmimmn 28 Ibi., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
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People and Places
There ain't nothing like a ... cheque!Gemma Craven, starring in the West End musical 'South Pacific' at the Bournemouth Pavilion during the summer, drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's 46th national lottery, which took...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCARDINESHIRE. The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a new Life-boat es- tablishment at Johnshaven, near Montrose, for the service of fishing-boats which are frequently placed in imminent peril when...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1893
WE heartily congratulate the BOARD OF TRADE on the very satisfactory information it has been able to place before the public, in its recently-issued Annual Blue Book, relative to the shipping casualties on the coast of the United Kingdom...
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