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The Life-Boat Services of the World: Denmark

Date: March 1923

Volume: 25

Issue: 278

By C. V. FABRICIUS, Manager of the North Jutland Life-Boat Institution.

THE Danish Life-Boat Institution, as at present organised, was established by the Act of 26th March, 1852.

It is an institution...

Category: Articles

51 Months of War.

Date: December 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 14

In 51 moncas of war our life-boats have rescued 5,385 lives, and our life-boatmen have won 191 medals for gallantry..

Category: Articles

Agnes and Mary, of Glasgow

Date: October 1865

Volume: 05

Issue: 58

Early on the morning of the 30th May, the smack Agnes and Mary, of Glasgow, struck on the rocks off this place, during a strong northerly wind and heavy surf. The Groomsport life-boat put off, and brought the master of the smack safely...

Notes of the Quarter

Date: January 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 430

DURING the years 1963 to 1969 inclusive the Institution opened no fewer than 49 new stations and closed 11. These contrasting figures are evidence of the way in which the R.N.L.I. has been coping with the increasing demands...

Category: Articles

Phoebe, of Goole

Date: January 1868

Volume: 06

Issue: 67

The Ann Maria life-boat at Winter- ton saved 2 men from the schooner Phoebe, of Goole, which had stranded on Wintertou Ness Point.

Lucy, of Antwep

Date: August 1875

Volume: 09

Issue: 97

On the 13th April a barque, which proved to be the Lucy, of Antwerp, was seen to be in distress on the Burnham Flats, five miles and a half from the shore. The Braacaster Lifeboat, the •Joseph and Mary, was launched as soon as horses could...

Mary Birch, of Hull

Date: October 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 327

The Humber, Yorkshire. — On the night of the 10th March a fog settled,but shortly before midnight it lifted a little and the life-boat watchman saw a vessel ashore on the Inner Binks.

The motor life-boat City of Bradford II...

Portrait of a Coxswain

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

COXSWAIN HAROLD COYDE, of the Torbay life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent. A member of the crew since 1953, he was second coxswain from October, 1960, to April, 1961, when he was appointed coxswain. In 1964 he was awarded a silver medal for...

Category: Articles

The Prince of Wales and the Life-Boat Service

Date: May 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 172

Speeches of His Royal Highness at the Annual General Meeting on the 18th March, 1893, "As your chairman to-day it is my duty to move the first resolution, which is 'That the report now read be adopted, printed and circulated.'...

Category: Meetings

Ernestine, of Amsterdam

Date: August 1875

Volume: 09

Issue: 97

On the 25th March this Life-boat again assisted, together with other boats and steam-tugs, in saving the ship Ernestine, of Amsterdam..