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"Capstan Bars."

Date: March 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 313

Walk Around Chanty BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CKAUFURD, R.N., Honorary Secretary of the Dungeness Life-boat Station.

" We were much relieved, when dawn broke, to see our boat beating home in the offing. As there had been no...

Category: Songs

A Steam Drifter

Date: December 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 328

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — 4th September. A steam drifter ran ashore and was damaged, but another drifter towed her to safety.—Rewards, £5 3s..

A Ketch

Date: April 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 333

Salcomhe, Devon. — 27th October, 1937. A ketch was making water rapidly, but was towed in by a tug.— Rewards, £15 18s..

A Motor Fishing Boat (1)

Date: June 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 318

31st January. A motor fishing boat had broken down, but was towed into safety by another fishing boat.—Re- wards, £14 12s..

Oil on Troubled Waters

Date: November 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 134

It is not wonderful that the reputed power of oil to calm " troubled waters," and to rob the ocean, in its angry moments, of the greater part of its power for evil against men and ships, should have ex- cited a very wide-spread...

Category: Articles

Mountbatten of Burma

Date: Autumn 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 470

ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who was killed in his motor yacht while on holiday last August, will be remembered, as is his wife, the Countess Mountbatten, as a very good friend of the lifeboat...

Category: Articles

Annual Report. 1898

Date: May 1898

Volume: 17

Issue: 188

At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Gross Road, on Saturday, the 12th day of March, 1898, His Grace the DUKE OF LEEDS in the Chair, the following Report of...

Category: Annual Reports

Third Bronze Medal for Irish Coxswain

Date: March 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 395

AT 6.20 on the evening of the 4th of October, 1960, the honorary secretary of the Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, life-boat station, Mr. A. Westcott-Pitt, learnt from the coxswain, Patrick Power, that two barges, which had been shelter- ing in...

Category: Services

The New Launching Tractor

Date: November 1928

Volume: 27

Issue: 296

By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life boats.

LAST year the Institution completed the first of a new type of tractor for launching Life-boats off flat beaches. It was built as the result of...

Category: Inaugurations

Clyde Crusader

Date: December 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 386

Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 1.20 •early on the morning of the 17th of .September, 1958, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore below Tynemouth •Castle, fifty yards north of Tyne north pier. Visibility was...