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The Reserve Life-Boat Which Was on Temporary Duty at Weston-Super-Mare Somerset Broke from Her Moorings on 12Th April 1969 and Was Wrecked the Picture (Left) Sho
The reserve life-boat, which was on temporary duty at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, broke from her moorings on 12th April, 1969, and was wrecked. The picture (left) shows her before she was taken in tow by the Barry lifeboat and (above) the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1903
His GRACE THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K.G., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by His Grace the DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K.G.
Seconded by Vice-Admiral LORD CHARLES BERESFORD, C.B.
Supported by the Right Hon....
Category: Meetings
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL LIFEBOAT CONFERENCE, on which a report appears on page 148, was as always an extremely harmonious and friendly affair. Indeed it would be difficult to find a gathering of pleasanter people anywhere in the world. To...
Category: Articles
A Night With the Ramsgate Life-Boat. One Hundred and Twenty Lives Saved
I.—DISASTERS AT SEA. THE LIFE-BOAT TO THE RESCUE.
To lie awake listening to the storm,—to hear the rush of the wind, now moaning in the chimney, now thundering at the windows, against which the rain beats and hustles,—to...
Category: Articles
Bookshelf
s o m e r e c e n t p u b l i c a t i o n s r e v i e w e d SHIPWRECK! by Ian Dear Published by Batsford at £17.95 ISBN 0713459530 Ian Dear has collected an interesting, if chilling, collection of photographs to illustrate his theme of...
Category: Articles
Delphor
THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 1st May, 1884.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read the following letter from Sir WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home...
Category: Committee
What Granny Threw Out' Was the Theme of An Auction Organised By May Mcmaster Ados Northern Ireland and Harry Briggs at the Dunmore Hotel Killyleagh on O
'What Granny Threw Out' was the theme of an auction organised by May McMaster, ADOS Northern Ireland, and Harry Briggs at The Dunmore Hotel, Killyleagh, on October 10. Nearly 300 letters to friends and lifeboat supporters asking for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
May Meeting.
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — At 2.15 P.M. on the 1st April the local motor fishing coble B. S. Colling put out to...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1927
Presentation of Prizes in the London District.
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 20th April, the Mayor of Westminster (Mr. Jacques Abady) presided at the presentation of the prizes won in the Life-boat Essay...
Category: Articles