LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
IT is NOW possible to become a member of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. Up to now anyone interested could become a member of a branch or guild of the R.N.L.I., a governor of the Institution, an honorary vice-president, or a member...
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The Edam, of Rotterdam
NOVEMBER 18TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.10 in the afternoon a steamer had been seen to go ashore on the Goodwin Sands. A moderate north-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was...
The Jordan Glycerine Barometer
ON the 25th of October last The Times published for the first time a remarkable alteration in its usual daily chart of the barometer, and considering the import- ance of the subject, we append its intro- ductory remarks, and also an exact...
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Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
North-East England Boulmer, Northumberland. At 8.50 a.m. on I2th March, 1964, anxiety was felt for the fishing coble Providence which was at sea in deteriorating weather. There was a fresh east-south-easterly breeze with a rough sea, and it...
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Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
THE RNLI'S ACCOUNTS for 1975 are not complete at the time of going to press, hut it is certain that expenditure will have exceeded income. In other words there w i l l he a deficit which will have to he made good.
The...
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The Sorrento Screw Steamship
" On the morning of the 17th December, we were summoned by the firing of minute guns and other signals of distress from some vessel on the Goodwin Sands, and at 3 A.M. we launched from Walmer and Kingsdowne simultaneously in the Cen-...
The Bull Lightvessel
LIFE-BOAT TAKES SICK MAN OFF LIGHTVESSEL Humber, Yorkshire. At 6.45 on the evening of the 23rd February, 1962, the Humber Conservancy Board in- formed the coxswain superintendent that a sick man on board the Bull lightvessel needed urgent...
The Dory Shetlander I
Walmer, Kent. At 5.14 on the afternoon of the 7th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small blue yacht had capsized off the Royal Marines' rifle range. The life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 32)...
The Helwick Lightvessel (1)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st of December, 1959, the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was returning to her station from an exercise, during which she had taken Christmas parcels to the Helwick and St....
The Blackwater Lightvessel
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...