LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In This Issue.
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services Including Bronze Medal and Vellum winning rescues Anniversary Special 175 years of saving Invsatsfa Three items looking at 175 years of aspects of the RNLI ...plus Sir...
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In This Issue
Feature: Especially for you 2 From the Thames to the Clyde - meeting local needs Feature: Lifeboat Lottery 6 Win a Caribbean cruise and help raise millions for the RNLI Lifeboats in action 8 Including a trio of Bronze Medals for St...
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Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(Tbtf-gura refer to the numbtn of the Hfc-boatl detailed on the twelve preceding Pages.) A. F. H., 131. ., 195, 241, 267. oman. E. Esq., 118. ooley, G. Esq., the late, 266, A Lady, 16. )almer, Mrs. the late, 11. onourable Artillery...
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Some Ways of Raising Money
More than £12,000 was raised by Bristol ladies' guild at its summer ball, held last July at the home of Mr and Mrs Cullum McAlpine, near Bath. On arrival, every lady was presented with a red rose, and when the 350 guests sat down to...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st July to the 30th November 1879
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA, NORTHUMBER- LAND.—On the 1st July a gale from E.S.E. sprang up at about 4 A.M. Seven fishing cobles had left about four hours previously for the fishing-ground, which is about 15 miles from the shore, and considerable...
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Stanley Smith, of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, who retired in August of this year, after twenty-seven years of service in the life-boat. He has been in it since the station was estab- lished in 1924. He...
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Maid of Kent and Dragon
SWANAGE.—On the 30th of September the Life-boat Charlotte Mary was launched, and brought ashore the crews—7 men in all—from the schooner Maid of Kent and the yacht Dragon, which vessels were in very dangerous positions during a heavy gale...
George and Mary of Hull
On the night of the 25th October, 1859, the sloop George and Mary, of Hull, was driven ashore near Filey, in a heavy gale from the eastward.
On her showing a light as a signal of dis- tress, the Filey life-boat was manned...
The S.S. Harmonia, of Hamburg
Again, on the 7th December the same life-boat went off and saved the crew of 15 men from the S.S. Harmonia, of Hamburg, which was totally wrecked on a sandbank near Brancaster. There was a heavy gale blowing from the N.E., and a high sea run...
David O' Connell, of Arklow
TYRELLA, DUNDRUM BAT, IRELAND.— During a whole gale of wind from S.S.E., on the 6th December, 1865, a schooner was seen endeavouring to beat out of Dundrum Bay. Owing to the heavy gale and the tre- mendous sea running, she failed in doing so...