LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—On the evening of the 1st January one of the fishermen reported that a vessel was showing a light, evidently in close proximity to the Annat Bank. The Life-boatmen were at once assembled and the No. 1 Life-beat Sarah...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution During the First Three Months of 1877
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the afternoon of the 1st January, when a strong gale from the N.E. and a fresh in the river had set up an unusually heavy sea on the bar of the Tweed, the barque Result, of Guern- sey, which was bound from Sombrero to...
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The Life-Boat Services of the World: Spain
By DON PEDRO DE NOVO Y COLSON, General Secretary of the Sociedad Espanola de Salvamento de Naufragos.
THE Society was founded in December, 1880 (under the patronage of H.M. Queen Dona Maria Cristina, its first protecting...
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Galway Medals. Presented By President Cosgrave
Presented by President Cosgrave.
THE awards made by the Institution for the gallant efforts to discover the survivors of the Welsh trawler Cardigan Castle, which struck the rocks and sank in Clifden Bay, Connemara, on the...
Category: Medals
The Life-Boat Service and Salvage
ALTHOUGH, in the course of its 127 years of work the Institution has saved, or helped to save, thousands of vessels from destruction, it makes no claims for salvage. Its sole purpose is the rescue of life. When, however, life- boats are able...
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On the Connection Between the Recent Gales of Wind and the Reading of the Barometer
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations in the readings of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich which are delineated in the annexed diagram include a period of forty days, or from 27th October to 5th...
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The Wreck of the "Indian Chief," 5th January, 1881. The Aldeburgh Life-Boat's Journey of 120 Miles.
IT is just fifty years since the barque Indian Chief, outward bound from Middlesbrough to Yokohama, was wrecked on the Long Sand, off the mouth of the Thames, and the twelve survivors of her crew of twenty-nine men were rescued by the...
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Obituary
BY the death of Mr. William Cole, of Ilfracombe, at the age of seventy-five, in April of this year, the Institution lost a warm friend and worker and one of its oldest Honorary Secretaries. He was appointed in 1890 and held the position...
Category: Obituaries
Life-Boat Day In Greater London
The "Splendid" Poor.
LIFE-BOAT Day was held throughout Greater London on 20th May, except in Baling, where it was held on 27th September. The Day was organized by the Central London Women's Com- mittee of...
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Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1932
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition was held this year for the twelfth time. The number of schools taking part in the competition was 2,249, as compared with 2,354 in 1931. The number of schools which took part in...
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