LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1923
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Royal Commission on Unseaworthy Ships. Final Report
IN our last number we commented on the j first portion of this important Report, comprising the clauses on "Overloading and Load Line," "Deck Loads," "Grain j Cargoes," and "Survey of British Merchant Ships...
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Otmerte.— Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....
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The Worst Floods In Living Memory
ON the night of the 31st January- 1st February the sea invaded large areas of land in many parts of the east coast, when exceptionally high tides were driven higher by violent northerly winds often reaching gale force. The floods which...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution—continued
POHTHDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES. At ,' 11 o'clock on the night of the 6th Sept., j 1884, the coxswain of the Life-boat, took up his station at the watch-house, j so as to be in readiness should the ser-vices of the boat be required, as...
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Forty-Five Hours on the Goodwins. Thirty Lives Rescued from An Italian Steamer
By L. H. Shelvey, Honorary Secretary of the Walmer Station AT ten past three on the afternoon of Friday the 2nd of January, the coastguard telephoned to me that a vessel appeared to be aground on the Goodwin Sands, one and a half miles...
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Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 4.—The 35-Feet 6 Inches Self-righting Type
UNTIL 1921 all the Institution's motor life-boats were of a weight which made it necessary that they should either lie afloat or be launched down a slip-way.
In that year, the first boat was sta- tioned at Eastbourne of...
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Voyage of the Motor Life-Boat "Joseph Adlam" from Cowes to Blyth
By Commander E. S. CARVER, R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats for the Eastern District.
WE left Cowes just before 7 A.M. of the 4th October. I had with me the Blyth Coxswain and three men, the Blyth Motor Mechanic, the...
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Motor Life-Boats That Want Names!
Nine for England; six for Scotland; one for Wales; three for Ireland.
The Institution now has 61 Motor Life-boats in its Fleet of 214. Another seven Motor Life-boats are under con- struction, and a further seventeen have...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Work
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) WORK.
The Institution is constantly occupied in building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the Coasts...
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