LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On the Variations of the Reading of the Barometer and the Weather In the Months of October and November, 1864
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations in the readings of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, are shown in the annexed diagram, including 46 days, ending the 30th of November, daring which period...
Category: Articles
Two Fishing Smacks The James and The Atkins
PORTHDINLLAEN.—Signals of distress were shown from some vessels in Carnarvon Bay on the night of the 25th January. The crew of the Life-boat George Moore quickly assembled, launched their boat, and proceeded in the direction of the light,...
Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum:
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum: forty-five sub-aqua diving pirates from Swindon took the plunge in style. They swam three and a half miles along the Thames, raising over £450 for the Institution.
The divers kept their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bull Point Lighthouse Bristol Channel Was Opened By Captain David Tibbitts Ssc Rn Deputy Master and Chairman of Trinity House and An Ex-Officio Member of Our Com
Bull Point Lighthouse, Bristol Channel, was opened by Captain David Tibbitts, ssc RN, Deputy Master and Chairman of Trinity House and an ex-officio member of our Committee of Management.
Designed by a Trinity House team... - View image in PDF
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Search and Rescue Seminar In the United States
A SEMINAR was held in New York from the I2th to i4th May, 1965, under the auspices of the United States Coast Guard to discuss the search and rescue organization in the North Atlantic basin. The delegates were not official government...
Category: Meetings
The Three-Masted Schooners Queen of Mistley and Willim
BROUGHTY FERRY.—A telegram having been received stating that two vessels appeared to be embayed at the mouth of the Tay and were in danger of being driven on the banks, on which a terrific sea was breaking, during a very strong gale from the...
The Motor Boats Aleeta Noot and La Falaise
RESCUED BOAT SINKS Margate, Kent.—-At 5.15 in the afternoon of April the 20th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that two small vessels were in distress three miles north-east of Margate. The motor life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil...
Margaret Ann, of North Shields
Again, oa the 8th December, the barque Margaret Ann, of North Shields, stranded off Swansea during a very heavy gale.
The Life-boat put off and remained near the vessel for some hours; the crew were ultimately taken off by...
The Duke of Atholl the Rnli's Chairman
The Duke of Atholl, the RNLI's chairman, meets members of the Lake District branch aboard a steam-boat at Windermere Steam-Boat Museum. The branch held a two-week fund-raising drive to coincide with Windermere Festival. Shepherds, a firm... - View image in PDF
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The West German Tug Fairplay X ,and Netherlands Coaster Orca
German tug, Dutch coaster ON THE AFTERNOON of Tuesday January 3, 1984, the West German tug Fairplay X fouled her propeller in St Ives Bay while trying to pass a towline to the Netherlands coaster Orca; the coaster, her engine disabled, had...