LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gold Medal for Hartlepool.
The gold medal for gallantry has been awarded to Lieuteaant W. H. Bennison, C.G.M.,R.N.V.R., coxswain of the Hartlepool life-boat, the silver medal to H. W. Jefferson, the motor mechanic, and the bronze medal to each of the seven other...
Category: Articles
Offshore Lifeboat Services December 1975 January and February 1976
February 1976 Aberdeen, Grampian December 30 and January 29.
Aith, Highland February 6.
Amble, Northumberland December 14.
Angle, Dyfed January 1, 3 and 6.
Arbroath,...
Category: Services
Destruction of the Passenger Steam-Ship, "Austria," By Fire
THE steam-ship, Austria, of 2,500 tons, one of the Hamburg line of screw steam-packets, running between that place and New York, sailed from Southampton on the 4th Sept.
last for New York. Her passengers numbered 425, and...
Category: Articles
First Aid for the Shipwrecked
FOR a number of years there has been in Plymouth very close and useful co-operation between the Life-boat Station and the local Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, the Brigade turning out whenever the Life- boat receives a call, and...
Category: Articles
2d. a Week
A SMALL London firm has a life-boat collecting box which brings the Institu- tion about £10 a year. Each of the em- ployees of the firm puts in 2cl. a week..
Category: Donations
An Aeroplane (86)
MAY 17TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
A British aeroplane was reported to have crashed, but nothing was found except wreckage. - Rewards, £2 13s..
An Aeroplane (62)
AUGUST 15TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 3.30 P.M., during an air raid, an aeroplane was seen from the boathouse to crash into the sea some three miles N. by W. of the station. The sea was smooth, with a N.W.
wind. The motor...
An Aeroplane (36)
DECEMBER 12TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
A lady passenger on a tram asked the driver to report that she had seen an aeroplane crash in the sea, but the lifeboat found nothing. - Rewards, £13 13s. 6d..
Focus On— Wells
WHEN one travels from Norwich, roughly north west, one soon begins to sense that the sea is not far away. The trees on exposed ground have a stunted look caused by the prevailing wind: their limbs are bent in a certain...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 3rd August, 1865, THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee