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The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution

Date: May 1871

Volume: 08

Issue: 80

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...

Category: Articles

Plan of the Work

Date: March 1852

Volume: 01

Issue: 01

THE deep interest that has recently been awakened throughout the country on the subject of the preservation of life from ship- wreck, by the publication of the Report of the Life-Boat Committee, appointed to award the premium offered by the...

Category: Articles, Advertisement

The Life-Boat Station

Date: May 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 124

(See Diagrams on next page.) The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat

Date: May 1885

Volume: 12

Issue: 136

The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...

Category: Articles

The Prudential Is Sold

Date: March 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 367

THE famous Ramsgate life-boat Pru- dential left the service of the Institu- tion in November when she was sold to Mr. F. H. W. Haywood, a London architect. The Institution's flag was struck for the last time aboard the Prudential at a...

Category: Articles

The Corton Lightvessel

Date: June 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 416

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 7.31 p.m. on i4th December, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that the Gorton lightvessel had on board her a man suffering from severe toothache who needed dental treatment. The...

The Founding of the Institution. The Report of the First Meeting

Date: September 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 299

THE Institution was founded at a meeting held in the City of London Tavern on 4th March, 1824, with the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Manners Sutton), in the chair. The twelve resolutions which called the Institution into being and laid down...

Category: Meetings

The Shetland Islands

Date: November 1906

Volume: 19

Issue: 222

WHETHER the Shetland Islands were the Ultima Thule of the Romans or whether that term was really applied to Iceland, as many believe, is immaterial to most people living in the " adjacent islands" of Great Britain and Ireland; it...

Category: Articles

The Belgian Motor Vessel Eminent

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWBIGGIN FEBRUARY 4TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the night of the 3rd of February, 1940, the Belgian motor vessel Eminent, of Antwerp, with a crew of nine men, was on her way to Newcastle-on-Tyne.

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Wihelamina, of Veesdam

Date: July 1866

Volume: 06

Issue: 61

On the 24th Decem- ber, the schooner WAhelmina, of Veesdam, went on shore, during stormy weather, at Scolston Head, off Peterhead. The People's Journal, No. 1, life-boat at the latter place, went off and rescued one of the crew.