LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrush: Pulling and Sailing to Fast Afloat Arun By Joan Davies
AT NOON on Sunday March 1, 1981, a new Arun class lifeboat was placed on service at Portrush lifeboat station, and yet another page was turned in a story of lifesaving on the north coast of Ireland which began in 1860. That was the year in...
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"The Merchant Shipping Bill of 1869." (Second Article.)
IN our last Number we gave a summary of this most important Bill, which we trust will be consummated as the " Merchant Shipping Act, 1870," in the next Session of Parliament.
We likewise commented on those...
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The Mariner's Compass
By Staff-Commander F. J. EVANS, R.N., F.R.S., Superintendent of Compasses to the Admiralty.
[IN the 47th Number of this Journal, when giving a drawing and a short description of the Fluid Compass supplied by this...
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Life-Boat Services In March, April and May. 90 Lives Rescued
DURING March life-boats went out on service 52 times and rescued 48 lives.
TO THE HELP OF BARGES IN THE THAMES Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.10 in the morning of the 1st of March, 1949, the look-out at Warden Point reported...
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Annual Meeting
THE ninety-fourth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 26th April, 1918, at 3 P.M. The Right Hon.
H. H. Asquith, KG., M.P., presided, and...
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Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1954. 120 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched 48 times and rescued 71 lives.
ESCORT FOR FLAMBOROUGH BOAT Flamborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 6th of January. 1954, a fishing coble was still at sea in...
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The Founding of the Institution. The Report of the First Meeting
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...
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The Fund Raisers
Fair weather or foul During Hoylake lifeboat station's open day last August it was a case of 'What shall we look at first?' And with so much to see and do it must have been a hard choice for many of the 10,000 people who went...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution During the First Three Months of 1877
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the afternoon of the 1st January, when a strong gale from the N.E. and a fresh in the river had set up an unusually heavy sea on the bar of the Tweed, the barque Result, of Guern- sey, which was bound from Sombrero to...
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Knockdown
Knockdown . . .
. . . DURING A WINTER OF UNUSUAL FEROCITY IN THE EARLY HOURS of Christmas Eve 1977 Kilmore lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Lad Murphy, and St Ives lifeboat, the 37ft" Oakley 'Frank Pen/old...
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