LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Electric Logs
IN our last issue we gave a brief description of the ordinary ship's log, -which has been in use during the last 275 years, and of patent logs also in use for the last half century. In continuation of that article, we have now to...
Category: Articles
Hope
PENMON, ANGLESEY.—A vessel was seen ashore on the north side of Puffin Island, during a moderate gale from the N.N.E.
and a heavy sea, on the morning of the 13th of October, and some men were observed on the island. The...
Marys
On the 16th January the Life-boat Andrew Pickard was again called out on service while a whole gale of wind was blowing from the S.E. The ketch Marys, of Aberystwith, while running for Hantoon Channel, having lost her mainsail, and showing...
The Steamers Tuscarora and Torvald
ON 3rd October, 1923, in a whole N.N.W. gale with a terrific sea, the trawlers of Brixham, were in danger in the harbour from a steamer, the Tuscarora, of Sunderland, which had come into collision with another steamer, the Torvald, of Sweden...
Alexandra
The ketch Alexandra, of Chester, left that port on 31st January bound for Millom with a cargo of coal and next day stranded on the East Hoyle Bank. For three days every effort was made to get the vessel off, and about thirty tons of cargo...
Minerva
HAYLE, CORNWALL.—Whilst running for the harbour, on the evening of the 7th December, the ketch Minerva, of Bridgwater, bound from Hayle for Bristol with sand, and the steamer Bride, of Hayle, with coal and coke, struck on the western spit of...
Services Rendered By Motor Fishing-Boats Subsidised By the Institution In 1918
Lives 1918. saved, w Jan. 29. S.S. Butetown, of London. Mevagissey Motor Fishing-boat saved ... 21 w Feb. 4. A Seaplane. Dungeness Motor Fishing-boat saved 2 w ,, 11. S.S. Baku Standard. Gourdon Motor Fishing-boat...
Category: Services
Mr. G. B. Dixon, of Walthamstow
By the death of Mr. George B.
Dixon, of Walthamstow, at the age of seventy-six, the Institution has lost one of its most valued honorary secretaries. He was appointed honor- ary secretary in 1923, and, in spite of the...
Category: Obituaries
Dr. Addison, of the Scillies
THE Institution has lost an old and valued friend by the death at the begin- ning of January of Dr. W. B. Addison, M.D., the chairman of the Scilly Islands branch.
For fourteen years, from 1918 to 1932, he was the honorary...
Category: Obituaries
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 14th June, 1906.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee