LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Miss Alice Johnston
Miss Alice Johnston, who lives in Sussex, it can now be disclosed, gave £25,000 towards the cost of the 52-foot prototype Arun class life-boat which was depicted on page 109 of the July Journal. On 7th July Miss Johnston, who is 83, was...
Category: Donations
An Aeroplane (111)
AU G U S T 3 1 S T . - F L A M B O R O U G H , YORKSHIRE. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but nothing was found.
Later it was learned that the crew of four had already been picked up by another vessel. - Rewards,...
None (29)
AUG. 31ST. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A cry for help had been heard by three boys from the Lydstep Caves. The motor life-boat was launched, and a coastguard search party went by car along the top of the cliff, and got down it...
The American Steamer William H. Welsh, of Baltimore
FEBRUARY 26TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
The American steamer William H. Welsh, of Baltimore, had gone ashore and was totally wrecked, with loss of life, near Loch Ewe, in a north-north-east gale. Before the life-boat could...
the Kathleen, Clarice, Pen Cw and Westmark
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—About 9.15 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that he had received warning of a full south- westerly gale, and at 9.45 he stated that several fishing boats were at...
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form,, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
Category: Articles
Eilis
Valentia, Co. Kerry - At 12.25 p.m.
on 23rd June, 1969, information was received that the fishing vessel Eilis, in the vicinity of Innistearaght island, required assistance. At 12.35 the life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on...
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How to Help the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
1. By becoming an Annual Subscriber, even if the amount subscribed be small, or by giving a donation.
2. By taking charge of a collecting-box or card and endeavouring to fill it.
3. By remembering ...
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Weather Forecasts
THE forecasting of storms and weather- changes is generally supposed to be wrapped in mystery, md the rules which have from time to time been laid down for the assistance of the would-be fore- caster, to say the least, only experimental,...
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