LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
THE full record of the life-boat service in the past year was a truly remarkable one. In no other year since the Institu- tion was founded in 1824 have life-boats been called out so often to vessels in distress at sea. The total number of...
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The Greek Freighter Athina B. (1)
Twenty-six rescued HM COASTGUARD at Shoreham MRSC telephoned the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 0817 on Monday January 21 asking that the lifeboat be placed on standby; a merchant vessel, the 3,500-ton Greek...
Life-Boat Families. The Aindows of Formby, Lancashire
ONE of the most remarkable family records in the history of the Life-boat Service is that of the Aindows of Formby, in Lancashire, who for nearly 60 years provided the greater part of the Crew of the Life-boat at Formby, a very isolated...
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The Duchess of Kent at Bridlington and Tynemouth
THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, took part for the first time in naming ceremonies of life-boats when she Avent on March 8th to Bridlington and on March 10th to Tynemouth and named their new life-boats, the Tittle Morrison,...
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Lady of the Lake (1)
SIDMOUTH AND EXMOUTH. — On the 29th March, the smack Lady of the Lake, of Portsmouth, was seen to show signals of distress off High Peak. A strong E. to E.N.E. gale was blowing at the time,accompanied by snow. The Lifeboat Bimington,...
The Problem of Ships' Life-Boats
SHIPS' BOATS : THEIR QUALITIES, CON- STRUCTION, EQUIPMENT AND LAUNCH- ING APPLIANCES. By Ernest W.
Blocksidge, M.I.N.A. (Longmans, Green & Co. 25.?. net.) Reviewed by FELIX RUBIE, M.I.N.A., Surveyor of...
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The Steamship Tripoli, of Glasgow
Pour days afterwards the Life-boat was again called out on service, when the steamship Tripoli, of Glasgow, went oa the Tuskar Shoal, while the mad was blowing strongly from the North. The Wexford No. 2, and Camsore Life-boats both put off,...
The S.S. Benwick
SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.—In thick weather, a strong S.W. breeze and a rough sea on the 4th February, a large steamer—the s.s. Benwick, of Newcastle —stranded on the " Runnel Stone" and subsequently became a total wreck. It was soon...
Rotary Service the 50Ft Thames Relief Lifeboat on Temporary Duty at Falmouth at Sea In Easterly Storm Force Winds When on February 19 She Stood By the Indian Carg
Rotary Service, the 50ft Thames relief lifeboat on temporary duty at Falmouth, at sea in easterly storm force winds when, on February 19, she stood by the Indian cargo ship State of Kerala/or nearly four hours awaiting the arrival of a... - View image in PDF
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Jubilee of the Walton and Frinton Station
THE life-boat station at Walton-on-the- Naze and Frinton, Essex, celebrated its jubilee with a dinner on 17th November. Fifty years before, almost to a day, on 18th November, 1884, the inaugural ceremony was held of the first* Walton...
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