LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Abstract from the Meetings of the Committee for the Year 1855
Thursday, Jan. 3, 1856.—THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Head and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance, Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com- mittees.
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Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress being shown by a schooner passing Castletown Bay to the eastward, making rapidly towards Langness Point, and apparently in a helpless condition during a gale of wind from the N.W. with snow...
Category: Services
Grace Darling
1 Grace Darling and Her Times." By Constance Smedley. With a Foreword by Commander Stephen King-Hall. (Hurst & Blackett. 18s. net.) THE news of the great exploit of William Darling, keeper of the Long- stone Lighthouse,...
Category: Articles
Travelscope
Thousands of happy passengers have already enjoyed a fabulous Ocean Cruise with award-winning tour operator Travelscope. savouring life on board the ever-popular MV Van Gogh ocean liner. On the back of this success and due to overwhelming...
Category: Advertisement
Rnli News
Awards to Lifeboatmen Alan Thomas, coxswain of the Tenby lifeboat, has won the Maud Smith Award for 'the most outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman' during 1989.
The award follows the lifeboat's rescue...
Category: Articles
Aid
BLAKENEY.—During a gale from the northward, on the 21st February, the ketch Aid, of Hull, bound from Barton to London, was observed riding heavily at her anchors, 4 miles from Blakeney, with a signal of distress flying. The tide being out,...
Bristol Packet
PENARTH, SOUTH WALES.—At daylight on the 9th March the Coastguard on duty observed a small vessel ashore in a verydangerous position on Cardiff sands. The wind was blowing strong from the W.S.W., accompanied by a heavy sea. The Lifeboat...
Argo
BALLYCOTTON, Co. CORK.—The ketch Argo, of Bridgwater, bound from Newport for Clonakilty, with coal, and carrying a crew of three men, was observed to be in distress during a moderate gale from the S. on the morning of the 21st July. She...
Thomas Owen
The Palling No. 2 Life-boat, British Workman, was also launched at 9 A.M. on the 14th June, during a strong breeze from the N. and a very heavy sea, signals having been fired by the North Float Light-vessel. The boat made for the Happisburgh...
Providence
The ketch Providence, of Goole, bound from Hull to Wells with a cargo of oil cake, parted her anchors during a strong N.N.E.
gale when off the bar, on the 1st April.
Signals of distress were hoisted, and...