. . the winch takes the weight, the quarter stoppers are removed and steadily the lifeboat is hauled up the slipway.. - View image in PDF
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AT the close of year ended the 30th June, 1908, there wore 280 stations in the United States Life-Saving Service this number being two in excess of the total for the preceding year. The stations were subdivided as before into thirteen...
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Launches 103. Lives rescued 130.
November Meeting.
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the evening of the 1st October a message was received from Horse Sand Fort that a vessel was stranded about two...
Category: Services
Thursday, 2nd September, 1858. Captain LAMBERT PERROTT, in the Chair.
. Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
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THURSDAY, 7th January, 1869. THOMAS CHAP- MAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.<...
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 7th of April, 1954, the Commissioners of Irish Lights rang up and asked if the life-boat would land a sick man fromthe Blackwater lightvessel. The Com- missioners had no boat...
To the seaman the weather experienced during the year 1889 must be considered as exceptionally favourable, for, like its predecessors 1887 and 1888, storms were of very rare occurrence in the British Islands, and as a necessary consequence,...
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Walton-on-the-Naze.
The Annual Meeting was held on the 29th December, the chair being taken by Mr. E. Standley, in the unavoidable absence of Mr. J. W. Eagle, the Chair- man. The account for the year ending the 30th...
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 131 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 37 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1936 - - - - 64,752 King Edward VIII and the Life-boat...
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ESTABLISHED by Sir William Hillary in 1824 when the seas around the British Isles were crowded with small sailing vessels, fishing and carrying cargoes, the R.N.L.I. was primarily concerned with saving lives from shipwreck. One of the...
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