Address at the Annual Meeting.
MR. CHAIRMAN, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, although this is the first time that I have spoken at your Annual Meeting, I am by no means unfamiliar with the work of the life-boat...
Category: Meetings
During a south- easterly gale the brigantine Lady Huntley, of Maryport, parted from both her an- chors and went ashore in Ramsey Bay before daybreak on the morning of the 16th January. As the tide made the vessel was gradually covered,...
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Category: Services
Further developments in the Communications and Navigational Aids of a Modern Lifeboat By Cdr KEN WOLLAN QBE RN Staff Officer (Communications) RNLI MY PREDECESSOR, Lieutenant Ernest Gough, wrote an excellent article which appeared in the...
Category: Articles
1st January to 31st March.
[Since September of last year the " News from the Branches " has been given in a more abbreviated form than before, but reference has been made to the work of many more Branches. To...
Category: Branches
ON Sunday, the 15th January, a south-easterly gale was blowing, with blinding snow-storms. A heavy sea was breaking on Holy Island, and the j weather was bitterly cold. Just before eight o'clock in the evening a...
Category: Medals
On the morn- ing of the 17th of November a vessel was seen burning a light as a signal of distress during a strong gale from S.S.E., and in a heavy sea. The Grocers' life-boat, sta- tioned at Mundesley, was at once got ready, and...
IN June we were honoured by a visit from the COMTE DE BIZEMONT, the Chief Inspector of our sister service in France, and we need hardly say it was a great pleasure to welcome him and show him what he required to see. Among other things the...
Category: Articles
WE have in previous numbers of the Life-boat Journal given accounts of the Life-saving Institutions of France and Germany, and have referred to those in other maritime countries of Europe. We feel sure that equal interest will be felt in a...
Category: Articles
NOV. 26TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
At 3.30 P.M. a telephone message was received that there was a sick man on the Conningbeg Lightship who had to be moved immediately to hospital, and that the Irish Lights tender was unable...