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Yachtsmen and the Life-Boat Service

Date: June 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 428

SINCE the end of the war in 1945 the number of calls for life-boat assistance emanating from yachtsmen—a term used as conveniently indicating people who go to sea for pleasure rather than profit—has steadily increased. Life-boat calls to...

Category: Articles

Reading the sea

Date: Summer 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 588

From surfers to fishermen to lifeboat coxswains, people who rely on the sea need to be expert at understanding what it’s doing. But how well do you know your tides, waves and currents?

The sea is changing all the time....

Category: Articles

Hunt's Gun and Projectile for Effecting Communication With Wrecked Vessels

Date: November 1879

Volume: 10

Issue: 114

IN the last number of this Journal we described an ingenious American invention for night-signalling, which we conceive would be especially valuable in cases of stranding, or other disaster to trading vessels. "We have now to notice...

Category: Articles

Peter Jones China

Date: Winter 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 519

THE ROYAL EVENT OF THE YEAR! The 40th Anniversary of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II's Accession to the Throne.

LIMITED EDITION 500 SIX MAGNIFICENT COMMEMORATIVE PIECES TO HONOUR THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF H.M. QUEEN ELIZABETH ll ...

Category: Advertisement

Aneroid Barometers

Date: November 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 130

Iltestratton of the Fisheriaaa's Aneroid Barometer as issued bj the National Life-boat Institution.

Its Dial or Face, which is enamelled, is five inches in diameter, being half an inch larger tifta the ordinary Mi-sized...

Category: Advertisement

CORRECTION

Date: March 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 427

Mr. J. P. Morris, of Coventry, who is a member of the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society, was quick to spot an inaccuracy in the caption to the photograph of the Workington life-boat which appeared on page 493 of the December, 1968, issue Of...

Category: Articles

Helping Pilots In Trouble

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

THE SOUTH EAST coast of England, as was the case during the war, still hears (and sometimes sees) military aircraft belonging to the R.A.F. and the U.S.A.F.

During this summer alone life-boats of the Institution have...

Category: Articles

Beaver

Date: September 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 409

HUSBAND SURVIVED At 8.45 a.m. on 19th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser anchored half a mile offshore, two miles north of Ardrossan, had run out of fuel and appeared to have lost a rudder. No other...

London Life-Boat Flag Day

Date: May 1916

Volume: 23

Issue: 260

As we go to press we are enabled to state that Life-boat Flag Day held throughout London on the 19th May was a great success, in spite of the fact that, unfortunately, the Y.M.C.A. had held their Hut Day on the 16th.

It is...

Category: Articles

Communication By Electric Telegraph and Signals on the Coast

Date: February 1876

Volume: 09

Issue: 99

BY the wreck of the Deutschland, the question of better means of communica- tion between outlying stations on the coasts of the United Kingdom and internal bases of supply, has received one more little jog forward into its inevitable ulti-...

Category: Articles