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The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom

Date: February 1876

Volume: 09

Issue: 99

XII.—GROOMSPORT.

The Florence, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, ! 10 oars. j A LIFE-BOAT was first stationed at this small i fishing port by the Institution in 1858; in 1867 it ! was replaced by the present boat, the...

Category: Articles

The Blackpool Life-Boat Band

Date: November 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 288

THIS is the story of the Blackpool Life- boat Band, which is very proud of being the only Life-boat Band in the world.

Blackpool was a very different place forty-two years ago from the popular seaside resort of to-day, and...

Category: Articles

The Wasting of the English Coast. (From the Times, 5th October, 1886)

Date: November 1886

Volume: 13

Issue: 142

ENGLISHMEN do not, as a rule, realise the perishable and perishing nature of the land on which they live. Although more than fifty years have now elapsed since Sir Charles Lyell collected and emphasised the evidences which showed that the...

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Goldshield

Date: Summer 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 537

GOLDSHIELD Healthcare Direct SPECIAL TRIAL OFFER TO ALL READERS SAVE££s on Vitamins & Minerals EVENING PRIMROSE OIL Evening Primrose Oil provides a nch source 01 Gamma Lnoteric aod (GLA) which the runan body naturally produces...

Category: Advertisement

The Late Mr. Joseph Devlin, M.P.

Date: June 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 318

THE death recently in Belfast of Mr.

Joseph Devlin, the Nationalist Member of Parliament, recalls a notable appeal which he made on one occasion at the annual meeting of the Belfast Branch of the Institution in the Belfast...

Category: Obituaries

Kimberly-Clark Ltd.,

Date: Winter 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 535

EXCLUSIVE OFFER TO Lifeboat READERS Order any FIVE different models at £5.95 each and receive the STORM FORCE model absolutely FREE MODELS AVAILABLE ORDER CODE 3098K Sam and Joan Woods 47-002 3390 James Burrough 47-003 3800 Ruby and...

Category: Advertisement

Wisp

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

SEPT. 10TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. The coastguard reported that the sailing yacht Wisp, of Shoreham, had capsized about one and a half miles to the southward of the harbour entrance. A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with a rather...

The Arklow, of Windsor

Date: November 1889

Volume: 14

Issue: 154

ABERYSTWYTH.—On the 7th October, during the severe storm which worked wide devastation over a great portion of the United Kingdom, a vessel was seen to be labouring heavily and showing signals of distress, some two or three miles from the...

Mint

Date: November 1909

Volume: 20

Issue: 234

At 7.30 P.M. on the 31st March the cox- swain of the Life-boat Queen Victoria saw the trawler Mint, of Brixham, run ashore on the White Ledge. He at once put off in a boat to see if it were possible to get her off, but the westerly wind...

In Fog Off Chesil Beach

Date: July 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 350

ON the evening of the 2nd of Apfil a strong south-westerly wind was blowing at Weymouth. The sea was rough; there was a heavy driving rain; there were dense banks of fog. At a quarter past six the coastguard telephoned to the honorary...

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