Thursday, 4th August, 1859. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.E.S., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
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Cromarty.—At 11.34 on the night of the 14th of May, 1951, the coastguard reported that the sailing cutter Mar- garet, with thirteen boys and one officer from the Moray Firth Sea School on board, was overdue. She had last been seen between...
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Roland Moore of Barrow. He was appointed second coxswain in 1941 and after a break for war service became coxswain in 1947. In 1958 he was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry for a service in which...
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(right) The day itself: Some of the Bottle Stall team ready for action, (I. to r.) Mrs Meg Myerscough, Mrs Ann Daly, Patrick McLarnon, Mrs Zita Mulhern and Mrs Gaby Mooney..
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PLEASE REMEMBER THE RNLI Lifeboatmen don't put to sea for pleasure Half the time they're rescuing those who have.
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The ILB arrives and gets a line around Mr Steward but then finds itself unable to pull away as water threatens to swamp the lifeboat. - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY 17TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. At 1.40 A.M. a barge was reported by the coastguard to be in distress off Seaford and burning red flares. A very strong southerly wind was blowing, with heavy seas, fog and blizzards of snow. At 2.25 A.M....
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
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IN the Register of Wrecks, which, always forms a portion of each number of this Journal, it will be observed that in addition.
to the direction of the wind, a column of figures is added to denote its force, by a scale, the...
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The last number of THE LIFE-BOAT gave the news that the Institution's deficit in 1967 was likely to exceed £400,000. This has now been confirmed, and the accounts showed that the final figure was £400,084.
The...
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