A SMALL London firm has a life-boat collecting box which brings the Institu- tion about £10 a year. Each of the em- ployees of the firm puts in 2cl. a week..
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(From The. Times, 18th October, 1889.) AMONG the many risks to which vessels navigating the sea channels near our coasts and the fairways leading to our ports are exposed, that of sunken or floating wrecks has of late years become very...
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Chief Inspector of Life-boats THE new 42-feet by 14-feet Watson cabin life-boat, the first of which has now gone to her station at Coverack, Cornwall, is the successor of the 41-feet by 11-feet 8-inches Watson type boat, which first came...
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Covenant is an old-fashioned word which in modern English is the equivalent of 'undertake' or 'promise'. If an individual or a company undertakes to pay a charity a certain sum each year for a minimum of seven years, then the...
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FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At about 11.30 P.M on the 27th May, 1939, it was reported that the motor boat Peggy Lynn, of Peterhead, was lying one mile east of Cairnbulg, apparently-in need of help. The lifeboat’s motor mechanic and a...
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THE Institution receives each year from a number of the big shipping com- panies part of the proceeds of collec- tions which have been made on board their ships on behalf of different chari- ties. The increasing numbers, as well as the...
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THE Admiralty Register of the Wrecks that have occurred on the coasts of the United Kingdom during the year 1854 has just been published by order of the House of Commons, accompanied by the Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the same...
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THREE life-boat stations, those at Camp- beltown, Llandudno and Selsey, all celebrated this year the hundredth anni- versary of their foundation.
The Campbeltown station was founded in the first instance largely be- cause...
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• The Sea, Thine Enemy by Captain Kenneth Langmaid, D.S.C., R.N. (Jarrolds, 355.) is in fact a comprehensive survey of coastal lights and life-boat service.
This is undoubtedly a book which may be read with profit and...
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Service to Holland 1: On September 12. 1980.
the Dutch dredger Holland I was in danger of parting her moorings off Irvine Harbour in a westerly gale. Connel Elizabeth Cargill, Troon's 44ft Waveney lifeboat, launched to...
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