LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 8th May last at Willis's Rooms, His Grace the DDKE OF MARLBOROUGH, President of the Society, in the Chair. The noble President, with great clearness, in an excellent...

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(Continued from page 725.) OF all the substances which the genius of man has enabled him to extract from the crude matter of the earth, and to appropriate to his own use, there is perhaps none so beautiful as glass. Whether we look at the...

THE Board of Trade has recently published the Wreck Register of the United Kingdom for the past year. As usual, it is a most interesting document, convey- ing much useful information on a subject of national importance.

On...

KINGSTOWN, IRELAND.—This Life-boat station was transferred to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION by the Dublin Billast Board in January, 1862.

In April of the same year the Institution replaced the Life-boat then at...

ST. ANNE'S ON THE SEA, LANCASHIRE.— In accordance with the wishes of the Life- boat men, the large Life-boat which is kept moored afloat at the end of St. Anne's Pier has been replaced by the large sailing Life-boat specially...

POOLE.—This Life-boat station has recently been completely renovated, the boathouse and slipway having been altered and improved, and the Life-boat, which was no longer fit for further i service, having been replaced by another and larger...