LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

an act of common humanity at what would seem a trifling cost ? The reasons operating on the mind of the man who thus " passes by on the other side " are these: public journals accounts given by sailors j l - That the loss of...

To organise a massive cheese and wine evening with more than 200 guests is no mean achievement when you are over eighty, confined to a wheel-chair and reliant on the telephone for making all arrangements. Nevertheless, the irrepressible Mrs...

THE disaster which befell the Kingstown No. 2 Life-boat on the 24th December, 1895, naturally turns people's thoughts to the subject of Life-boat accidents.

Although the proportion of accidents to the launching of the...

Baltimore, Co. Cork - At 4 p.m. on 9th November, 1966, news was received that a member of the crew of the Spanish trawler Madre-de-Cristo had been badly injured, and it was requested that the life-boat meet the trawler at about 7 o'clock...

APRIL 24TH. - COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. An object had been reported in the sea off Seven Heads, but nothing was found.

Later it was learned that it was part of a barrage balloon. - Rewards, £11 15s. 6d..

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As iron ship-building has been most suc- cessfully practised in this country for several years past, and as we possess superior ad- vantages over all other countries for the manufacture of that metal, it is surely matter for surprise that we...

At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 26th day of March, 1887, The Right Honourable Lord GEORGE HAMILTON, M.P., First Lord of the...