LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
R. M. Ballantyne's "The Life-Boat."
IT is thirty-two years since R. M.
Ballantyne died, and last year was the centenary of his birth. He was writing for nearly forty years, his first book being published in 1856, and in that time he produced eighty volumes....
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List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CREWS, AND TO OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31ST DECEMBER,...
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Marie Kirstine
On the 19th June a vessel with a signal of distress flying was seen, while a strong breeze was blowing from the N.W. with a rough sea and thick weather.
She was on the S. side of Olanyard Bay, and about fifty yards from the...
Book Reviews
Among the 455 people aboard the passenger steamer Royal Charter which went aground off the Anglesey coast on 25th October, 1859, were members of the family of R. M. Ballantyne, the famous writer of children's books. Ballantyne was deeply...
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A Dinghy (10)
Wick, Caithness-shire - At 9.50 p.m.
on 24th July, 1967, it was learnt that an explosion and flares had been seen eight miles east of Brora. The life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched at 10.10 in a moderate south westerly...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management
February Meeting.
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—On the llth December, 1932, the 4,920- ton steamer Pauline, of Panama, came to anchor in a very dangerous position in Tramore Bay. She was bound, light, from Glasgow to...
Category: Services
Nanteos
LITTLEHAVEN, PEMBROKESHIRE. — Two schooners were at anchor in St. Bride's Bay, "while a gale of wind was blowing from the S. on the 25th January. It was thought advisable to warn the crew of the Life-boat Friend, to be in readiness...
Ben Doran
Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.
Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels...
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MAY 1ST. - CROMARTY. At 7.40 A.M. a message was received from the Cromarty coastguard that two airmen had been seen in the sea off Brora, and at 8.20 A.M. the motor life-boat James Macfee was launched.
A light easterly...
Life-Boatman Overboard
A Rescue at Portrush.
A VIOLENT westerly gale, with gusts at 70 miles an hour, swept across the British Isles on 19th October, 1935, with loss of life and great damage to property ashore and afloat. Twelve life-boats were...
Category: Services