LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Capsizing of the St. Ives Life-Boat. Medals Awarded to Coxswain and Crew
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 137 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 30 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to March 31st, 1938 - - - - - 65,625 Capsizing of the St....
Category: Services
Membership News
G o v e r n o r s • S h o r e l i n e • S t o r m F o r c e Positive Reactions There's an old saying: 'It only takes one spark to start a fire.' Well, the spark in this case was the Spring issue'spiece 'Moving with the...
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Two Inflatable Dinghies (1)
Salcombe lifeboat THE HONORARY SECRETARY of SalCOmbe lifeboat station was informed by Brixham Coastguard at 1313 on Sunday April 10, 1983, that an inflatable dinghy had capsized on the Skerries Bank at the southern end of Start Bay: two...
Maritime Buoyage System A (1)
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIGHTHOUSE AUTHORITIES Maritime Buoyage System A A COMBINED CARDINAL AND LATERAL SYSTEM, RED TO PORT To be introduced in North West European and many other waters by stages, starting April 1977 FROM APRIL NEXT...
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District Conferences In the North of England and London
CONFERENCES ! We live in an age of Conferences. Never have there been so many. They range over the whole field of human activity, social, political, economic and scientific. At one moment we see the representative statesmen of the world...
Category: Meetings
Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
IN the year 1852 this Institution adopted a new description of life-boat: many of the boats which it at that time possessed were worn out, and the result of the-competition for a prize offered in the previous year by His Grace the Duke of...
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The Life-Boat Service Abroad
UNITED STATES.
THE Annual Report for the United States Coastguard for the year ending 30th June, 1915, indicates a new arrangement by which, in accordance with the passage of the Coastguard Act...
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Book Reviews
Mr. Angus MacVicar has produced a work which many people associated with the life-boat service must long have wanted to find, a gripping novel written for the young on the work of a life-boat station. This is Life-boat— Green to White...
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The Sorrento Screw Steamship
" On the morning of the 17th December, we were summoned by the firing of minute guns and other signals of distress from some vessel on the Goodwin Sands, and at 3 A.M. we launched from Walmer and Kingsdowne simultaneously in the Cen-...
The National Service for Seafarers
THE National Service for Seafarers, which is held each autumn, in St.
Paul's Cathedral, took place on 15th October.
At this Service the Institution is, of course, always represented, but this being the...
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