LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Leonie, of Charlotte-Town
KINGSTOWN.—On the 30th of September the brig Leonie, of Charlotte-Town, Nova Scotia, mistaking the Vanguard wreck-lightfor the Kish Light, ran into shoal-water off Bray, 7 miles south of Kingstown, where, after daylight, the master anchored...
Lebu
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—During a severe gale on the 20th October the barque Lebu, of Liverpool, at anchor about five miles from Douglas Head, hoisted signals of distress, in response to which the Douglas No. 2 Life-boat, the John Turner Turner...
The Removal of Wrecks Act, 1877, Amendment Act, 1889
NOT the least important work dene by the Legislature during this year's session has been the passing of an Act to amend the " Eemoval of Wrecks Act, 1877." Prior to this Act becoming law no provision existed for the removal of...
Category: Articles
The South Holland Life-Boat Society
EVERY reader of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL will remember how the whole civilized world was appalled at the sad news of the wreck of the s.s. Berlin at the mouth of the Hook of Holland on the 21st February, 1907, when so many precious lives were...
Category: Articles
Rescue of Bathers In Distress
TWICE during th? past summer Life- boats have saved the lives of bathers who had got into difficulties. On each occasion the Life-boat was out on other duties and went to the rescue in the nick of time.
On the afternoon...
Category: Services
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 2.—The 51-Feet Barnett (Stromness) Type
THE 51-feet Barnett (Stromness) Motor Life-boat is a modification of the 60-feet Barnett Motor Life-boat which was described in The Lifeboat for last February. She is nearly as fast as the larger type (only half a knot less), but she has not...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The Eight Hon. C. 1. Ritchie, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, said in the House of Commons on the 14th February, 1896 :— " It is not the intention of the Board of Trade to interfere with the excellent work of the Royal National...
Category: Advertisement
United States Life-Saving Service
Mr. S0MNEE I. KIMBALL, the able and in- defatigable General Superintendent of the United States Government Life-Saving Service, has sent us his very interesting Annual Report, jast issued, furnishing particulars of the operations of the...
Category: Articles
Italian Medals for Cromer
THE Italian Government has awarded medals to the Cromer life-boat crew for their gallantry in rescuing thirty men from the steamer Monte Nevoso, of Genoa, in October, 1932. The steamer had stranded on the Haisborough Sands and had broken her...
Category: Medals
The S.S. Esbo (2)
Barrow, Lancashire ; Maryport, Cumberland; Ramsey, and Douglas, Isle of Man, October 19th.—On the 18th October the s.s. Esbo, of Helsingfors, left Preston in ballast for Finland. Bad weather was encountered, and the Esbo got into...