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The Life-Boat

Date: May 1886

Volume: 13

Issue: 140

(See Diagrams on next page.) The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general...

Category: Articles

Meetings of the Committee

Date: July 1854

Volume: 01

Issue: 13

Thursday, 3rd Nov. 1853. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.

Confirmed Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Wreck and Reward, and Life-boat Sub-Committees.

Reported the deaths...

Category: Committee

The Unseaworthy Ships' Commission

Date: November 1873

Volume: 08

Issue: 90

THE Royal Commission appointed at the instance of Mr. Plimsoll " to inquire into the alleged unseaworthiness of British registered ships," has issued a " pre- liminary" report. The report is signed by all the...

Category: Articles

Notes of the Quarter

Date: Winter 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 483

FOR LIFEBOAT PEOPLE 1982 was a very full year. The Institution's lifeboats were called out more than 3,000 times and the number of lives rescued was the highest in the past seven years: 1,244.

These figures are...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat House

Date: May 1874

Volume: 09

Issue: 92

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-bouses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

Category: Articles

After the Wreck

Date: July 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 73

ONLY a broken rudder, only a ruin'd sail— Only a shatter'd topmast, only a sea-bird's wail.

Here is the good ship's pinnace—all of her that is left— There are the yards and rigging—a tangled woof and...

Category: Poetry

The Amazon, of Gothenburg

Date: February 1875

Volume: 09

Issue: 95

On the 17th Sept. the Life-boat Van Kook res- cued 5 men, who, having been engaged in saving wreckage from the Amazon, of Gothenburg, lost on the Goodwin Sands on the previous day, were placed in a position of extreme peril by the increase...

The Abertay Light-vessel

Date: June 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 330

Broughty Ferry, Angus.—On the night of the 20th January the life-boat stood by Abertay light-vessel.— Rewards, £13 Is.

(A full account of this service and of the rescue of the light-vessel's crew by the life-boat...

The Ramsey Island Boat

Date: September 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 397

St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 4th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fire had been observed on Ramsey Island. The honorary secre- tary took no immediate action because in the...

Standing By After Taking Off Crew

Date: December 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 374

St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, life-boat and S.S. Punta (see page 158). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs