LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE object of this Institution, as declared in its title, is to afford assistance to every shipwrecked person around the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The chief means by which it hopes to carry this object into effect are—...
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Alamein
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 12.31 on the afternoon of the 25th of August.
1957, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht seemed to be drifting off Xew Ground buoy but was not showing distress signals. The vacht...
Past Explained:
Past explained: the old lifeboathouse at Brook on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, where a pulling lifeboat was kept betweeen 1860 and 1937, has for a long time had no indication of what the building was originally used for. Tourists... - View image in PDF
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Coxswain George Stonall of New Brighton Receives the Bronze Medal from H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent
(see page 72). - View image in PDF
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Lists of Contributors to the Branches of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Annual Report. 1891
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Princes' Hall, Piccadilly, on Saturday, 21st day of March, 1891. The Most Honourable the MARQUIS of HAR- TINGTON, M.P., in the Chair, the following...
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A Dinghy (6)
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 25th of August, 1957, the coastguard reported that a rubber- covered dinghy had been observed by a pilot of a Rritish European Air- ways aircraft some five miles east of Ronaldsway. The...
Jachin
At 6.30 P.M. on the 13th March during a S.W. gale, information was received that a barge— the Jachin, of Maldon — bound from London to Newport, Isle of Wight, with a cargo of wheat, had struck the bar and was driving into the Bay. The Motor...
The American Steamer John P. Doe, of Baltimore
MARCH 25TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.15 at night the Deal coastguard telephoned that a vessel was aground on the mainland near the South Foreland. A moderate southeasterly breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth, but there was thick fog. The...
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