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OCTOBER 27TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. Lights had been reported, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Major-General the Right Hon. the Lord Mottistone, P.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. (Major-General Seely). Lord Mottistone was chosen coxswain of the Brooke, Isle of Wight, life-boat last year by his fellow members...
Category: Articles
J. W. A., of Newquay
During a strong gale from the N.N.E., and in a heavy sea, on the 21st February, two i vessels were at anchor in this roadstead.
One of them was labouring very heavily; ' and at last she exhibited a signal of dis...
In This Issue
In this issue News All the latest from and about the lifeboat service Letters 2 8 Feature Come fly with me 10 The Lifeboat takes a closer look at the RNLI hovercraft - the latest addition to the fleet Lifeboats in action Including award...
Category: Contents
The Effect of Steam Fishing-Boats on Small Fishing Communities
IN a former article in this journal (February, 1895) it was pointed out what an important part in the organi- zation of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was occupied by the fisher- men living on the coasts of Great Britain and...
Category: Articles
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats. Stromness, Longhope, Piel (Barrow), Swanage and Portrush
Lieutenant H.R.H. Prince George, K.G., G.C.V.O., R.N., named the two Motor Life-boats at Stromness and Longhope in the Orkneys on the 6th June.
These are the two most northerly Life-boat Stations in the British...
Category: Inaugurations
The Heavy Gales of the 2nd and 3rd December, 1863. Life-Boat Services
AT no recent period have the disastrous effects of storms been more severely than during the hurricane of the 2nd and 3rd December last.
Its results were felt, more or less, in all parts of the country. About 11 A.M. on...
Category: Services
Education of Seamen, and Marine Schools
THERE are still many persons in this country, although they are doubtless a diminishing number, who maintain that the education ol the lower classes of society is injurious to them, as unfitting them for the station in which they were born,...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm
Montrose, and Broughty Ferry, Angus, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, and Gourdon,Kincardineshire.—At 4.52 in the after- noon of the 7th of March, 1952, the S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm, bound for Sweden from Methie, wirelessed that she was leaking...
The S.S. Cormorant, of Kirkwall
On 10th February, at 2.45 in the afternoon, when a whole gale from the S.E.
was blowing with a heavy sea, it was reported at Stromness that the S. S Cormorant, of Kirkwall, was in distress in Eynhallow Sound. The Motor...