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The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1884

Date: November 1885

Volume: 12

Issue: 138

THE Wreck Register which has been issued within the last few days by the Board of Trade affords, in its elaborate and care- fully prepared tables, abundant matter for consideration and thought. Many of the facts laid before us draw from us...

Category: Articles

Here and There

Date: Autumn 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 486

Round Britain Windsurf Tim Batstone is planning to windsurf round the entire 2,000 mile coastline of Britain in 1984, sailing in a clockwise direction starting and finishing at Tower Bridge. His aims include being the first person to achieve...

Category: Articles

The Centenary: In Scotland

Date: December 1924

Volume: 25

Issue: 282

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Aberdeen held a Centenary Meeting on 23rd January, at which Lord Provost Meff presided, and the Marquess of Aber- deen and Temair, K.T., a Vice-President of the Institution,...

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The Loss of the Pandora

Date: Summer 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 359

DURING the evening of the 21st of October. 1951, a very sudden gale blew up from the north on the Yorkshire coast, and just after 6.30 next morning the coastguard at Staithes rang up the Runswick life-boat station. A ship could be seen...

Category: Articles

RNLI News

Date: Spring 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 532

NEWSPOINT Since the previous issue of THE LIFEBOAT appeared in January the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day has given both young and old the chance to look back at the heroic deeds and sacrifices made to...

Category: Articles

The Great International Fisheries Exhibition, 1883

Date: August 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 125

SINCE the great International Exhibition of 1851, promoted by the late lamented and ever-to-be-remembered PRINCE Conr- SORT, and carried to a successful termina- tion under his auspices, there have been many such exhibitions in this and...

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Four Life-Boats Are Named. Countess Howe at Yarmouth

Date: December 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 410

OVER a year after she was first introduced experimentally into the life-boat service, the 48-foot 6-inch Oakley prototype life-boat, The* Earl and Countess Howe, was named and dedicated at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, on 26th...

Category: Inaugurations

Scene from Above

Date: Winter 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 539

The RNLI's lifeboats are part of the UK's overall Search and Rescue Facility and often work closely with their airborne counterparts.

Jim Ferguson, press officer of the Aberdeen branch of the RNLI, looks at HM...

Category: Articles

The Effect of Oil on Breaking Waves and Coast Surf

Date: August 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 129

THE expression " Pouring oil on troubled waters" "has been from some remote period metaphorically used to signify the allayment of anger and strife by kind and gentle words. Like all other metaphors, this one was no doubt...

Category: Articles

Life-Boat Saturday Fund

Date: November 1909

Volume: 20

Issue: 234

ALL through the current year the cry of "bad business" and "no business" has been resounding through| the land, north, south, east and west, and the general depression, which seems to have settled upon us, might...

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