LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Vessel (3)
JANUARY 21ST. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. A ship had been re-ported in distress to the south-east of Ardmore Point, Islay, but nothing was found, and later it was learned that the vessel was not in immediate danger and did not need the help...
An Aeroplane (111)
JULY 31ST. - THE LIZARD, CORN-WALL. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but when the life-boat reached the position given she found naval boats searching, and after a time returned to her station. - Rewards, £14...
Empire Jonquil
JANUARY 16TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
The motor vessel Empire Jonquil, flying the Dutch flag, had gone ashore, but her captain declined the services of the life-boat. - Rewards, £7 2s..
Sailors' Homes
Among the many movements to which the philanthropic spirit of the age has given birth, few are entitled to a larger share of public sympathy and support than such as have for their object the well-being and im- provement of those classes...
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Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 15th day of March, 1860, Rear-Admiral the Right Hon. Earl of SHREWSBURY and TALBOT, C.B., V.P., in the Chair, the following Report...
Category: Annual Reports
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1935
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools has been held this year for the fifteenth time. The number of schools which took part was 2,511. an increase of 10 on last year.
Of this...
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Lifeboat Services
LOUGH SWILLY BACKS-UP RIGID INFLATABLE Lou (ill Swilly Ireland Division Photographers save fishermen in Gale A rescue carried out by the crew of a rigid inflatable in Gale force conditions on 16 April 1991 has earned its two-man crew awards...
Category: Services
Southwest Passage
Howard Richings, the PNLI's Shoreworks Manager continues his voyage around the coast - here he looks at the stations from Exmouth to Fowey With the RNLI's 175th anniversary celebrations under way and the editor's insistence that...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles
On the 4th March between twenty and thirty fishing cobles belonging to Newbiggin, carrying crews of about eighty men and boys, were placed in jeopardy by the sudden springing up of a gale of wind from S. by E. with a rough...
Sale of Foreign Postage Stamps
Miss MARGARET POWER, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch, proposes to form a stamp club in order to sell foreign postage stamps for the benefit of the Institution. She would be very glad to...
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