LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mla Unit Trust Management
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The Price of Fish In London
To THE EDITOR OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL.
SIR,—As so many of the gallant men who are ever ready to man the Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION belong to the hardy fish- ing population of our coasts, I have...
Category: Correspondence
People and Places
Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting, the Committee of Management has awarded 3 Honorary Life Governorships, 10 Bar to Gold Badges and 55 Gold Badges. Each of the following entries states the dates of the first and latest...
Category: Articles
The Ramsgate Life-Boat and the Ketch "Lord Hamilton."
AT half-past two in the afternoon, of 12th February last, the Ramsgate Life- boat and tug were called out by a message from the Coast Guard that a vessel— found afterwards to be the ketch Lord Hamilton—was ashore on the north-east part of...
Category: Services
Lights and Lighthouses. (Continued from Page 215.)
(Continued from page 215.) THERE remains to be considered the distribution of lights on a coast and the positions in which they should be placed.
It will be readily conceived that, important as it is to produce a brilliant...
Category: Articles
List of Launches
Le Station-by-station lifeboat launches for June and July 1999 Aberdeen Arun: Jul 2andJu)4 D Class: Jul 2 and Jul 12 Aberdovey Atlantic 2 1 : Jun 7. Jun 24. Jun 26 (twice) and Jul 27 Abersoch Atlantic 2 1 : Jun 4 (twice). Jun 6. Jun 18 and...
Category: Services
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
The pride of the RNLIA dip into the archives of theLifeboat reveals page after page of award-winning RNLI rescues - and the bravery of crew members continues. But how does the RNLI choose those extra-special services that merit an award?A...
Category: Services
Some Fishery Statistics
In the first Number of this Journal we showed the intimate connexion between fishermen and life-boats, and stated that in the fisheries of the United Kingdom there were employed on the 1st January, 1850, the large number of 36,000 boats,...
Category: Articles
The Hamble Inshore Rescue Boat and another Boat
Boarding boat rescue from saltings REQUESTING THE LAUNCHING of Calshot lifeboat at 2207 on Thursday, January 29, HM Coastguard told the honorary secretary that at 2054 a red flare had been reported in Ashlett Creek and. in view of the very...
Channel Islands By Joan Davies
Channel Islands OUR MOST SOUTHERLY LIFEBOAT STATIONS by Joan Davies SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL Sailing waters in the world; a cruising man's dream in themselves and the gateway to Brittany. Such are the seas which surround Alderney,...
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