No life-boat station can be considered complete without a set of life-belts for the boat's crew, and the several local committees should insist upon having them, and upon the belts being put on, before the men go afloat. The qualities...
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Yealm River and Plymouth, South j Devon.—The s.s. Veghtstroom, of Amster- dam, whilst bound from Fowey to Amsterdam with a cargo of china clay, stranded on the Mewstone at theentrance to Plymouth Harbour on the 21st November. Information of...
Awards to coxswains, crews and shore helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were also...
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IN our last number we commented on the j first portion of this important Report, comprising the clauses on "Overloading and Load Line," "Deck Loads," "Grain j Cargoes," and "Survey of British Merchant Ships...
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THE last article on the Installation of the Motor in Life-boats appeared in The Life-boat Journal, VOL XX., No. 225, published in August, 1907, and it will it is thought be of interest to our readers if we review the progress made since that...
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The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity, gratuity or...
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Cromarty.—During the morning of the 21st December, 1937, the Helmsdale coastguard reported that they were trying to locate two small Helmsdale fishing boats, Linnet and Girl Pat, which had left Loch Fleet for Helmsdale at about 4 P.M. the...
Islay, Inner Hebrides, and Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 5.30 in the morning of the 13th of August, 1948, the Kil- choman coastguard telephoned that a vessel about three miles north-north- west of Coul Point had made flares, and at 6.15 the...
100 years ago It will doubtless be in the memory of many of our readers that the Report read at the last Annual Meeting contained the important information that Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., the Chairman of the Institution, on behalf of the...
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100 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1896 In 1995 Dan Laoghaire received the first Trent class lifeboat in Ireland. The contrast between the sailing lifeboat involved in the 1895 Kingstown disaster recounted below and herl 995 high-tech...
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