LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats
Ballycotton, Co. Cork—At 6.50 A.M. on the 1st January a message was received at the Coast-guard Signal Station from the captain of the s.s. Pinna, of London, to the effect that he was in distress and required immediate...
Category: Services
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LXIX. TRAMORE.—The Alfred Trower, 34 feet by 8 feet, 10 oars.
IT may not be out of place to preface this article with a description of the old and interesting city of Waterford, which is in close proximity to Tramore, and...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BRIDLINGTON QUAY, YORKSHIRE. —On 3rd January the Life-boat George and Jane Walker was called out to the assistance of two sailing vessels which had been towed into the bay and left at anchor. During the night the wind changed into the E.S.E....
Category: Services
An Inflatable and a Canoe
Sixteen minutes: five children rescued 1436: SUNDAY JUNE 15, 1986: honorary secretary of Rye Harbour lifeboat station, while working in the boathouse hears Camber Coastguard on radio to Dover Coastguard requesting immediate launch of Rye'...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 13th June, 1907.
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
An Important National Question
WE have frequently had occasion to allude to the feet—to the astounding fact—that an annual average of more than 700 human beings suffer death by drowning, from shipwreck or collision, on the shores and in the waters of the United Kingdom...
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The Luggers the Quick and the Gyles
ST. IVES, CORNWALL.—On Saturday the 29th April a fearful gale was experienced here. The wind, which was from N.W., blew from about 11 until 3 o'clock in the afternoon with tremendous fury, lashing the sea into foam, and causing the spray...
An Aeroplane (115)
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 5.45 A.M. the naval author-ities at Cromer asked for the life-boat to go out, as an aeroplane was in the sea between Sheringham and Blakeney. A light westerly wind was blowing, the...
Abstract from the Meetings of the Committee for the Year 1855
Thursday, Jan. 3, 1856.—THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Head and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance, Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com- mittees.
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Category: Committee
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 8th October, 1896.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee