LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Isaac Clark of Runswick: When He Retired Last Year He Had Given 59 Years of Service to His Station—20 Years As a Crew Member 34 As Winchman and Five As a Shore H
Isaac Clark of Runswick: when he retired last year he had given 59 years of service to his station—20 years as a crew member, 34 as winchman and five as a shore helper—and his connection with the lifeboat extended back even longer than the... - View image in PDF
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th October, 1913.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read the minutes of the Building,...
Category: Committee
A Dinghy (1)
DIFFICULT RESCUE FROM ROCK THE Pwllheli life-boat and the Abersoch ILB, stationed on the Caernarvonshire coast, answered a call on 25th June, 1972, when two men in a motor boat were reported overdue.
The search started when...
A Hundred Years Ago
Youghal, Ireland.—On the 8th February, the Norwegian barque Galatea ran on shore on the bar at the entrance of Youghal harbour, the captain having mistaken the port for Queenstown : a gale of wind was blowing at the time from the south, and...
Category: Articles
Athelduchess (1)
AUGUST 21ST. - ST. DAVID’S, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Late on the night of the 20th August, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore inside the south-east rocks of the Smalls off the coast of Pembrokeshire.
She was the...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 12th January, 1893, Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Bead and confirmed the Minutes of the Finance and...
Category: Committee
Tubular Life-Boat
UNDER the above designation, a " life-boat," or what would be more correctly termed a life-raft, has been constructed by two public- spirited gentlemen, the Messrs. RICHARDSON, of Aber Hirnant, Bala, North Wales, and navigated from...
Category: Articles
Lights and Lighthouses. (Continued from Page 215.)
(Continued from page 215.) THERE remains to be considered the distribution of lights on a coast and the positions in which they should be placed.
It will be readily conceived that, important as it is to produce a brilliant...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st Oct. To the 31st Dec. 1878
ISLE OF WHITHORN.—On the 2nd Octo-ber, the smack Swallow was observed off: Borough Head dismasted, and in danger of being driven on the rocks. The Whithorn Life-boat Charlie Peek put off to her assistance, but before she could get near the...
Category: Services
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1901
Jan. 10.—Voted an aneroid barometer to Mr. Gr. H. WARD, master of the Trinity pilot cutter Alpha, and 10s. each to three of the crew for putting off in a boat from the cutter and rescuing ten of the crew of H.M. yawl Hind, which had stranded...
Category: Articles