LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Miguel, of Bilbao
Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—28th February.
At 11.19 A.M. the coastguard reported that the s.s. Miguel, of Bilbao, was in difficulties with her steeringchain broken, about twelve miles E.N.E. of West Hartlepool. A...
Kate and Mary, of Arklow
On the llth Sep- tember, the smack Kate and Mary, of Ark- low, was observed riding at anchor in a dangerous position during a fierce gale of wind from the S.E., a boy only having been left on board. The Arundel Vendbles life-boat, stationed...
The wreck of the Hindlea
The scars left by the wreck of the Royal Charter run deep among local people. The storm and the appalling loss of life have become a grim legend and on the centenary of the shipwreck in October 1959 a service of remembrance was held at...
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Emperor and Girl of Devon
CAISTER.— At 9 P.M. on the 13th October, the No. 2 Life-boat Godsend was launched during a strong gale from the N. and a very heavy sea, signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Emperor, of Banff, and the three-masted schooner...
Letters of Thanks to Skippers
FOR a service which led to the rescue of six people from the motor fishing vessel Castle Dawn, Mr. Samuel McCullough, skipper of the motor fishing vessel Be Ready, and Mr. Ernest McKee, skipper of the motor fishing vessel Ambitious, have...
Category: Services
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Presentation of Vellums Signed by the Prince of Wales.
TEN Centenary Vellums were pre- sented to Stations during the year 1931, and two more presentations were made in 1930 in addition to the ten previously reported in...
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Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE following is a copy of a Circular which has been addressed by the Royal National Life-boat Institution to the local Committees of its several Life-boat Branches on the coasts of the United Kingdom. The Circular explains at length the...
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Centenary of Welsh Life-Boat Station
THE hundredth anniversary of the establishment of a life-boat station at Criccieth in Caernarvonshire was cele- brated at a dinner held at Criccieth on the 14th of October, 1960. The Lord- Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire, Sir Michael Duff,...
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On the Connection Between the Recent Gales of Wind and the Reading of the Barometer
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations in the readings of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich which are delineated in the annexed diagram include a period of forty days, or from 27th October to 5th...
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H.L Routh, of New York
Early on the morning of the 11th April, during a heavy gale of wind from W.N.W., the Robert William life-boat proceeded to the rescue of the crews of two vessels in distress off this place. On reaching the nearest vessel—the barque H. L....