THE decision of the Committee of Manage- ment of the Institution to establish the headquarters of the " Life-boat Saturday " Fund in London, under the management principally of a representative committee of " Life-boat...
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Station-by-station lifeboat launches for August, September and October 1998 Aberdeen Arun: Aug 29 Aberdovey Atlantic 21: Aug 12and 19 (twice) Abersoch Atlantic 21: Aug 1, 7, 20, 21, 30 and 31 Aberystwyth Atlantic 75: Aug 11, 23, 29, 30...
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Honorary Life Governors THE following have been appointed honorary life governors of the Institution and presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent as President of the Institution : LADY...
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Aberdeen, Grampian March 7.
Aith, Shetland April 23.
Angle, Dyfed May 11 and 14.
Baltimore, Co. Cork April 8.
Barra Island, Western Isles March 22 and April 10.
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A LIFEBOAT DISASTER may have been narrowly averted last December. Soon after the Padstow lifeboat had launched late in the evening of December 7, she was struck by three exceptionally heavy seas. A considerable weight of water dropped almost...
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Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire May 24.
Abersoch. Gwynedd April 13, 18 and May 30.
Aberystwyth, Dyfed May 5.
Arran, Buteshire April 25 (twice).
Atlantic College, South Glamorgan...
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HARWICH, ESSEX ; POLKERRIS and FOWEY, CORNWALL BULL BAY, ANGLESEY ; TROON and PORT ERROLL, SCOTLAND. — It having been found necessary to replace the Life-boats at these stations by new boats, the crews were as usual called upon to furnish...
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The schooner Gaspard, of St. Malo, was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands on the 3rd Jan., 1869. The Rams- gate life-boat Bradford went off, in tow of the harbour steam-tug Aid, on signals being fired from one of the light-ships, and on arriving...
WEYMOUTH, DORSET.—During rough weather, the wind blowing dead on shore with a heavy sea, on the 26th February a message was received from the Coastguard stating that a large foreign ship, which afterwards proved to be the Alauda, of Hamburg,...
Soon after midnight on the 28th February, during a fresh gale from the S.E.
and a rough sea, the Coastguard watchman reported that a vessel was burning signals of distress in the roadstead. The coxswain of the Life-boat...