Launches 97. Lives rescued 84.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—On the even- ing of the 8th January the steamer City of Dublin, of Dublin, bound home from Hamburg with a general cargo, ran...
Category: Services
A GREAT crowd, reverently absorbed in one of the most beautiful and significant ceremonies associated with the progress of civilization; the aged Bishop of Cloyne, a grand figure, clothed in the dignity of the episcopal robes and ad-...
Category: Inaugurations
BRIDLINGTON QUAY, YORKSHIRE. —On 3rd January the Life-boat George and Jane Walker was called out to the assistance of two sailing vessels which had been towed into the bay and left at anchor. During the night the wind changed into the E.S.E....
Category: Services
Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow. — On the morning of the 21st December, 1933, the honorary secretary...
Category: Services
THURSDAY, 5th Jan., 1871: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com- mittees. The...
Category: Committee
Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
November Meeting.
Dungeness and Hythe, Kent.—On the 8th October, the barge Shamrock, of London, was...
Category: Services
PALLING, NORFOLK.—About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne....
Category: Services
NOVEMBER Launches 71. Lives rescued 91.
NOVEMBER 1ST. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Wind and sea had got up in the morning while several fishing boats were out, and by eleven o’clock a strong easterly gale was blowing, with a...
Category: Services
DURING December, 1951, life-boats went out on service 35 times and rescued 15 lives.
ENGINE BROKEN DOWN Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 3.7 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a woman had...
Category: Services
IT is intended in this and each future number of the Life-boat Journal to give our readers a short account of two or more of the stations of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
These sketches—for they will be of that...
Category: Articles