.—Shortly before 10 A.M. on the 16th March the N.N.E. wind became very squally, and increased to a gale, when three of the Bridlington Quay fishing-boats, which had gone off early in the morning, were off Hornsea. At about 11 A.M. the wind...
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — At 10 A.M. on the 24th January, during a strong S.E. gale with a very rough sea, the s.s. Rustoer, of Glasgow, was dragging her anchor and drifting off the pier. Only the captain and a boy were aboard her. The...
To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.
SIR,—I HAVE read with considerable interest your Article in the Life-Boat Journal, on the management of boats in a surf and broken water, and must beg to offer some remarks upon it;...
Category: Correspondence
IT has been repeatedly suggested that we, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITU- TION might publish a list of those officers of has been awarded. We accordingly the Royal Navy and Marines now living to place the same before our readers. It...
Category: Medals
A FOREIGNER, looking at the Wreck Chart of the British Isles, might not unnaturally conceive that a very large proportion of the ships that pass to and from our ports every year were wrecked on our shores. When, however, he came to be...
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ANNUAL REPORT . . . . 337 r e~P° Balance Sheet 352 T 'f w? Box Collections . - - *?& -kiie-po Branch Contributions Committee ol Managem General Contributions Income and Expenditui Legacies and Legacy Fo Life-Belt, Description o...
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Working for your sport Who negotiates in the EEC on behalf of 3.1 million UK yachtsmen, powerboaters and windsurfers, implements safety standards, runs the small ships register, trained over 85,000 people last year in navigation and boat...
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Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire, and Aberdeen.
THE new Porthdinllaen Motor Lifeboat was named on 12th August by Dame Margaret Lloyd George.
D.B.E., J.P., President of the South' Caernarvonshire Branch...
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Similar service was rendered on the 10th December by the Life-boat to the crews, numbering in all eighteen men, of the schooners Caroline, Seaward, Phoenician, and Reaper. A very severe gale from the W.N.W. had suddenly sprung up, causing a...