THIS question was briefly touched on in the article in this Journal on " The Changes in the Institution's Life-boat Fleet since 1897," published in February last. Not very many years ago it was brought as a charge against the...
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How many branches have had a whole island put at their disposal for a picnic supper? Broadstone branch had such an honour when Mr and Mrs H. J.
Palmer kindly allowed them to use Round Island in Poole Harbour in...
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An ingenious invention having the above title has recently been patented by R. G.SIBBALD, Esq., a surgeon, residing at Liver- pool. Its object is to enable a ship to carry a line to the land on a lee-shore, or to another vessel or boat, or...
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SCARCELY had the British public had time to fully realize the national loss by the wreck of H.M.S. Orpheus, as narrated in the foregoing pages—scarcely were they made aware that a splendid man-of-war steamer, with her perfect equipment, and...
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A MESSAGE was received at St. Mary's, Scillies, through the St. Ives coast- guard, shortly after half-past one in the afternoon of 28th November, that the schooner Mynonie R. Kirby, of London, bound for the South Seas, was drifting...
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Life-boat Friday 26th Lerwick Aldeburgh Filey Yarmouth, I.o.W.
Valemia Saturday 27th Fishguard Southend-on-Sea Lizard Newhaven St. David's Casualty Hours at sea Lives rescued S.S. Granfoss ' 23 Trawler Pinguin 12 8...
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ABOUT eight in the morning of 20th December, 1938,' the life-boat watch- man at Rosslare Harbour, County Wexford, reported that he could see a schooner apparently at anchor near Splaugh Rocks. An easterly gale was blowing, with a very...
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BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BEMBRIDGE JANUARY 29TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT During the afternoon an easterly blizzard was raging at Bembridge in the Isle of Wight.
The wind had been blowing hard for several days and a very...
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BOULMER MARCH 27TH. - BOULMER, NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
During the night of the 26th of March a large steamer was seen to be on fire off the Northumbrian...
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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