LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Help of the Cinemas
DURING the autumn of 1924 two films with a special Life-boat interest i were released to the Cinemas. One o f ' them, " Down to the Sea in Ships," is; the cruise of a whaler. Among its scenes are the wreck of one of the boats...
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Notes of the Quarter
RESCUE craft of the R.N.L.I. were launched on service more often in 1964 than in any other year since the Institution was founded in 1824. The number of launches by life-boats was 929 and by inshore rescue boats 238. Lives saved by...
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The Gale of October 15-16th Last
At a recent meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society, a paper was read by Mr. 0. HARDING, P. E. Met. Soc., on "The Gale of October 15-16th, 1886, over the British Islands," in which he remarked that the storm was of very...
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The Fishwives of Cullercoats
It is not only to our Life-boat workers, that we are indebted for help in raising funds. Numbers of the men and women who take part in the sterner side of Life-boat work on the coast have given us generous help on the financial side as well....
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Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 103. Lives rescued 130.
November Meeting.
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the evening of the 1st October a message was received from Horse Sand Fort that a vessel was stranded about two...
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Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
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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Marriage of the Secretary of the Institution
A marriage has been arranged, and will take place on 28th July, between George F. Shee, second son of the late Richard Jenery Shee, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, and Mrs. Shee, and Helen Dorothea, younger daughter of the Rev. T....
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Notes of the Quarter
THE variety of services performed by life-boats and the variety of vessels which life-boats help have been clearly illustrated during the past quarter.
The first ten services for the month of May, which are recorded on...
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Services of the Life-Boats
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 3.10 P.M. on the 30th August a message was received reporting that a Government transport had been in collision off Rottingdean, i and was in" a sinking condition. A light S. W. breeze was blowing at the time and |...
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Summity
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 5.35 on the evening of the 3rd of November, 1953, a shipping company at Par reported that they had received a message that the motor ship Summity, of London, had asked for help as she had broken down half a mile...