LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution—continued
POHTHDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES. At ,' 11 o'clock on the night of the 6th Sept., j 1884, the coxswain of the Life-boat, took up his station at the watch-house, j so as to be in readiness should the ser-vices of the boat be required, as...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 11th January, 1906.
Silt 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
The New Fleet
LONG before the war ended the Institution had made plans to rebuild a great part of its fleet. It lost six boats, destroyed by the enemy, and more serious even than this loss were the delays. In the last four years of the war the building of...
Category: Articles
Services: Scott's Feat In Dinghy
SCOTT'S FEAT IN DINGHY NEWS of a boy in the water clinging to an upturned boat on 12th April led to the Mumbles, Glamorganshire coxswain, Mr. Derek Scott, B.E.M., taking out a dinghy as with the strong ebb tide which was running he...
Category: Services
The Merchant Vessel Craigantlet
Stranded BELFAST COASTGUARD reported to the honorary secretary of Portpatrick lifeboat station at 0355 on Friday February 26, 1982, that Craigantlet, a merchant vessel on passage from Belfast to Liverpool, laden, had gone ashore off...
Concerning Public Opinion on the Mercantile Marine, and the Corporate Interests Connected Therewith
THE "British Public" has of late mani- fested a considerable degree of dissatisfac- tion at the general state of the Mercantile Marine, a dissatisfaction which is none the less real in fact because it can hardly be said—at least in...
Category: Articles
A Sponsored 25-Hour Game of Crib Played By Brighton Policemen Sgt Peter Dear Pcs Dave Rowland Harold Green Kim Wood Roger Charles and Wpc Sue Boug
A sponsored 25-hour game of crib played by Brighton policemen. Sgt. Peter dear, PCs Dave Rowland.
Harold Green, Kim Wood.
Roger Charles and WPC Sue Bought en, raised £1,058 for Brighton's new ILB... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
Life-Saving Hammocks and Mattresses
IN our August Number we inserted a Paper by ADMIRAL RIDER on the great advantage that would accrue if the ham- mocks in ships of -war could be made to serve as life-buoys, in the event of a ship suddenly foundering; more especially as in...
Category: Articles
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Tobermory, Isle of Mull.---On the evening of the 5th August, 1939, a doctor asked for the life-boat to take a woman to Oban, to be sent thence to the Maternity Hospital, Glasgow. No steamer was available and he was afraid that she would...