LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wrecks
DURING the past week ending 16th December, 49 wrecks have been reported—making a total for the present year of 3,208.—Shipping Gazette.
Such is the brief but forcible record which has caught our eye as we were going to...
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A Hundred Years Ago
IT was mentioned in last year's Report that four life-boats, on the most recent construction, were building, and were about to be stationed on the coast of Northumberland; these boats, by the courtesy of the Lords Commissioners of the...
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Additional Rocket Stations
We learn from the 15th Annual Report of the Rocket Stations on the Coast of Yorkshire and elsewhere, just issued by Mr. CARTE, Ordnance Storekeeper at Hull, that during the past year two new rocket stations have been established at Portland...
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Italian Government's Thanks. Services By the Torbay and Hope Cove Life-Boats
ON the night of February 15th of last year an Italian steamer, the Liberta, of Genoa, on her way to Rotterdam, went ashore among the rocks at Bolt Head near Salcombe in Devon. Shortly after midnight the news of the wreck was received at the...
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Penthesilea
BRAUNTON AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.— On the llth of January, the ship Penthesilea, of Liverpool, manned by a crew of 30 hands all told, left Newport, Monmouthshire, laden with coal, for the Mauritius. She was towed down the Bristol Channel and...
Regalia (1)
The Life- boat Civil Service No. 6 was launched at 10.20 A.M. on the 25th February to the assistance of three fishing-boats belonging to Douglas, which were caught by a whole N.W. to N.N.W. gale, which suddenly sprang up. Fortunately the...
Manchester Liners
MANCHESTER HAVE THE SERVICES Containerships to & from Canada & U.S. Mid West For more information contact: MANCHESTER LINERS LIMITED P.O. Box 189, Manchester Liners House, Port of Manchester, Manchester M5 2XA.
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Lizzie
On the I night of the 13th April a strong N.
I gale suddenly sprang up, and about i 11.30 P.M. one of the cobles returning j from the lobster pots reported that the ' weather was very bad at sea, and not fit ...
An Adventurous Life
Man the Hopes (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s. (Jd.) is the autobiography of Mr.
Augustine Courtauld, a Vice-President and a member of the Committee of Management. It tells the story of an engrossing and adventurous life: of his...
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