LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
MARGATE, KENT.—On the evening of 20th February the Coxswain was in- formed by telephone from the Coast- guard Lookout that lights had been seen at sea. A few minutes later more lights and a rocket were seen in the direction of the Tongue...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
Scotland North Division Propeller fouled AT 1050 on -Monday June 25, 1984, Pentland Coastguard contacted Wick lifeboat station's deputy launching authority with the news that a salmon coble was in difficulties off Ackergill. At 1100 the...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
WEST HARTLEPOOL.—On the 2nd April, 1881,at about 11 A.M.,on observing the bri- gantine Danube, of Guernsey, which was about to enter the Hartlepool East Harbour, hoist a flag of distress, the West Hartle- pool No. 1 Life-boat Rochdale...
Category: Services
An Important National Question
WE have frequently had occasion to allude to the feet—to the astounding fact—that an annual average of more than 700 human beings suffer death by drowning, from shipwreck or collision, on the shores and in the waters of the United Kingdom...
Category: Articles
The Ecuadorian Motor Vessel Bonita
Twenty-nine rescued A MAYDAY RELAY message from the Danish motor vessel Charlottenburg was heard by St Peter Port Signal Station at 1323 on Sunday December 13, 1981.
Charlottenburg was going to the assistance of Bonita, an...
The Fundraisers
Anniversary Morning Market Harborough ladies' guild celebrated its 21st anniversary year by holding a birthday coffee morning at the home of Mrs Roland Orton, president and founder of the guild.
The party was to thank...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th October, 1875 : THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of thelnstitutim, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those 'of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and...
Category: Committee
Notes and News
1924 will be remembered as one of the wettest years on record. But it was not a year of storms, although it ended with great gales all round the coast.
It was, in fact, a year much calmer than the average. It is such years...
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Education of Seamen, and Marine Schools
THERE are still many persons in this country, although they are doubtless a diminishing number, who maintain that the education ol the lower classes of society is injurious to them, as unfitting them for the station in which they were born,...
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The Prince of Wales As President of the Institution Strongly Advocates the Cause
IT was only in March last that H.K.H.
The PRINCE of WALES very graciously accepted the post of President of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in succession to the late lamented DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, and at once...
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