LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
1886: the Wreck of the Mexico By Frank Kilroy
ON THE NIGHT of December 9, 1886, the German barque Mexico, bound from Liverpool for Guayaquil, Ecuador, with a general cargo and a crew of 12, was wrecked in the Ribble Estuary on the north west coast of England.
Three...
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Book Reviews
• In Rescue Call (Kaye & Ward, 2is.) Angus Mac Vicar has written an admirable brief history of the life-boat service. It is extremely readable and a great deal of information has been packed into no more than 128 pages. Many of the...
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Special Trust Funds Income Account, 1902
To TRANSFERS TO INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT (see p. 603) . £. i. d. £. i. d.
Blake Life-boat Maintenance Fund 40 10 - Dnnnett Widows and Orphans Fund 128 9 1 Reardon Samaritan Fund 146 17 ...
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The Life-Saving Service of the United States
INFORMATION relative to the Life-boat and other Life-saving Services of other countries moat always be of great interest to the supporters of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which, being the oldest Life-boat Service in the world,...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 12th September, 1912.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building,...
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Resolutions Passed at This Annual Meeting for 1888
His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, E.G., PRESIDENT or THE INSTITUTION, IN THE CHAIR.
1.—Moved by His Grace THE PRE- SIDENT.
Seconded by Sir EDWARD BIRK- BECK, Bart., M.P., JVP.
That...
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"Boats That Save Life." A New Film of Life-Boat Building
THE Institution has had made for it a new sound film which tells the story of the building of a motor life-boat. It starts on the other side of the world, with the hauling by elephants of teak logs in the Burmese forests, and the felling of...
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Book Reviews
"English Coastal Evolution." By E M.
Ward (Methuen, 6s. 8d net).
Reviewed by A. W. Lewis, the Consulting Engineer of the Institution.
COASTAL changes concern the Institution...
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People and Places
a r o u n d and a b o u t t h e RNLI A fifty-first occasion for lottery draw To mark the RNLI's 51st national lottery, Brigadier Mike Wingate-Gray QBE MC and Bar, who served with the 1st Battalion, The Black Watch in the 51st Highland...
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A Vessel (22)
JUNE 25TH. SALCOMBE, DEVON. The coastguard had reported a vessel in distress off Start Point, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £3 18s..