LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Rescues By Shore-Boats
San day, Orkney Islands, and Smerwick, Co. Kerry.
ABOUT ten at night on 24th June, 1924, a small boat, with three men on board, was capsized in a sudden and heavy squall in Otterswick Bay, at Sanday, in the Orkney Islands....
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
THUBSO, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.—A fierce W.N.W. gale sprang up shortly before midnight on the 6-7th January and increased as the night advanced. At about 1 A.M. the ketch Resolute, of New- castle, which was at anchor in the roads, made signals of...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.— On the morning of the 4th January, 1892, while a moderate gale of wind was blowing from the N.N.E., with strong hail squalls and a heavy sea, signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Ship Rock, about a...
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Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1895
THE RIGHT HON. LORD TWEEDMOUTH, LORD PRIVY SEAL AND CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER, IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Eight Hon. Lord TWEEDMOUTH.
Seconded by Sir EDWARD BIRK- BBCK, Bart., V.P., Chairman...
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An Aeroplane (64)
AUGUST 17TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 4.45 P.M. the naval authorities asked that the life-boat should be launched, as a body had been seen floating in the Cudd Channel.
A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, but the see was...
An International Life-Boat Organization
AT the International Life-boat Con- ference the proposal was made by Count Yoshii, President of the Imperial Japanese Life-boat Society, that steps should be taken to form an International Life-boat Organization.
COUNT...
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Annual Meeting
This number of The Lifeboat is really the June number. It was almost ready to be printed when, towards the end of June, afire at the works of the Whitefriars Press, Tonbridge, destroyed nearly the whole of the type. The Committee of...
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Portrait on the Cover
THE photograph of Coxswain Blogg, of Cromer, on the cover, was taken by Illustrated in 1940, and is reproduced by its very kind permission..
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Services by Life-boats
Services by the Life-boats of the Institution, by Shore-boats and by Auxiliary Rescue boats during 1944 During the year life-boats were launched 455 times. Of these launches 280 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by...
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