LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A French Yacht Rescued on the Coast of Jersey
THE night of the 27th of September, 1951, was very dark and overcast at St. Helier, in Jersey. A fresh wind was blowing from the south-south- west; there was a swell rising from six to eight feet; and heavy storms of rain made visibility...
Category: Services
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors THE following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and present- ed with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the .Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution: MR....
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WEXFORD, IRELAND.—The No. 1 (large) Life-boat, placed at Wexford about four- teen years since, having become unfit for further service, it was replaced by the Institution in November, 1871—a very fine boat, 40 feet long and 10 feet wide,...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—The first Life- boat service in the year 1872 was, that on the 1st January, by the boat on this station, it happening to be the only service performed by a Life-boat of the Institution on New Year's Day,...
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Newly-Invented Sounding Instrument
THE principle on which this novel instrument is constructed to act, consists in obtaining the weight of the column of water resting on the ground, a principle which, simple as it is, and beautiful in its simplicity, could only have been...
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Twenty-Four Spanish Sailors Rescued. A Service By Ilfracombe, Appledore and Clovelly
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 154 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to May 31st, 1950 - 76,899 Twenty-Four Spanish Sailors Rescued A Service by Ilfracombe,...
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SOS on the High Seas
SOME 300 representatives from government and industry in 21 countries attended a New York conference in October, 1970, to discuss ways of providing 100% search and rescue coverage for vessels needing help on the high...
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Services Record Month by Month
Services by the Life-boats of the Institution and by Shore-boats during 1939 During the year life-boats were launched 685 times. Of these launches 200 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the enemy or from other...
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The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XXVII.—DUNDALK.
Stoctport Sunday School, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, 10 oars.
THIS Life-boat Station is on a low flat shore, three miles south of Soldiers' Point, the southern side of the...
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Property Salvage Services Rendered By Life-Boat Crews
Committee, forthwith approached the Board of Trade with a view to the holding of the proposed Conference. In due course the Board of Trade called together the Conference at which the Committee of Management of the Institution, the Com-...
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