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Book Reviews
• In Rescue Call (Kaye & Ward, 2is.) Angus Mac Vicar has written an admirable brief history of the life-boat service. It is extremely readable and a great deal of information has been packed into no more than 128 pages. Many of the...
Category: Articles
"Catherine Booth." The Salvation Army's Life-Boat on the Coast of Norway
The following article has been written for The Lifeboat by an officer in the Salvation Army, while, the note attached to it gives some general particulars about the Norwegian Life-boat Service, which we haw received from its...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Small Ads
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Category: Advertisement
Margaret Armstrong: Life-Boat Heroine
THE small fishing-village of Cresswell, in Northumberland, lies about twenty miles north of the mouth of the Tyne.
It is not easy of access to visitors, for the nearest railway station on the main line, between Newcastle...
Category: Articles
Lady Amanda
Injured couple rescued from yacht aground in heavy surfThe Chairman of the RNLI, Michael Vernon, has written a letter of congratulation to helmsman William Walker-Jones of Criccieth's inshore lifeboat following the rescue of two people...
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories The History of the Penmon and Beaumaris Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author The northern end of the Menai Straits is one of the areas where changing times and use of the sea has led to considerable...
Category: Articles
Ebro (1)
MARCH 18TH. - FRASERBURGH, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. Just before nine o’clock in the evening the coastguard at Kinnaird Head reported that a white rocket had been seen off Rattray Head, and at 9.20 the Fraserburgh motor life-boat John...
William of Liverpool
RHYL.—The schooner William of Liverpool, bound from Liverpool to Foryd, arrived in the estuary on the evening of the 12th August, but, being unable to get into the Foryd during that tide, grounded on the east bank. At low water five men went...
Queen
Shortly after 5 A.M. on 24th November a vessel was observed in the bay in dangerous prox- imity to the shore. The crew of the Life-boat Marianne L. Say were sum- moned and the boat launched. The wreck was reached at 6.30 A.M. and proved to...
Prince Llewellyn
WORTHING. — The schooner Prince Llewellyn, laden with slate from Portmadoc for Shoreham, stranded about two miles E. of Worthing pier at 2 P.M., on the 20th February, in a strong E.S.E.
breeze, a rough sea and thick weather...