IN the 18th Number of this Journal we inserted a Paper on the above subject, compiled in great part from information collected from the boatmen on the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The Committee of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT...
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WE have, in previous Numbers of this Journal, advocated the use of life-belts, both on shipboard and in boats, especially in life- boats; and we have recommended the ac- quirement of the art of swimming by every one. As we think the subject...
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Mr. P. B. PEMBEBTON, of New York, who was saved from the wreck of the Mohegan, recently Beat a present of 501. to the crew of the Porthonstock Life-boat, St. Keverne, Cornwall. la thanking him, the crew forwarded their photographs and a...
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The R.N.L.I. Christmas card for 1968 will feature a reproduction of an excellent colour transparency showing the Skegness life-boat at sea. The card will sell at 9d., complete with envelope.
There will also be for the first...
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water, the submarine.surveying apparatus will be used in addition to the ordinary mode of sweep- ing ; the stages (with the divers down the chain- ladders on their platforms) being drawn by a screw-steamer about half a-mile the hour, there...
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DOVER.—In the autumn of 1853, a new life-boat was stationed, at Dover by the Dover Humane Society to replace their old one. This boat was constructed by Mr.
CLARKSON, of a material which he has patented, composed of...
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By Captain H. G. Innes, R.N., Inspector of Life-boats for the Western District.
[Each summer the Institution's steamtug, Helen Peele, which is stationed at Padstow, Cornwall, for the purpose of taking the two Padstow...
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