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Mary
MAY 23RD. - HYTHE, KENT. At about 8.15 P.M. the motor life-boat Viscountess Wakefield was off Beachy Head on passage from Cowes to her station after overhaul.
There she saw the motor cruiser Mary, of Chichester, with her...
Shoreline Section
THE BOAT SHOW at Earls Court in January went with a bang this year! First there was the bomb. Luckily no one was injured, and the way in which everyone walked quietly and calmly to the exits and cleared the building in a matter of minutes...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ILFRACOMBE, NORTH DEVON.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a life-boat establishment at Ilfracombe, where there had at one time been a life-boat station under local management, which, however, it had*been found necessary...
Category: Articles
Book Reviews
• A new volume in the Wreck and Rescue Series is always welcome and in The Life-boats of Cardigan Bay and Anglesey (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 32s.) Mr. Henry Parry has maintained the traditions of accuracy and thorough- ness of the...
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Literature
LITERATURE OF THE LIFE-BOAT An Account of Books, Pamphlets and Press Articles on the Life-boat Service, 1785-1947 With 63 i ustrotions from old prints, paintings and photographs By SIR JOHN GUMMING K.C.I.E.,...
Category: Advertisement
Education of Seamen, and Marine Schools
THERE are still many persons in this country, although they are doubtless a diminishing number, who maintain that the education ol the lower classes of society is injurious to them, as unfitting them for the station in which they were born,...
Category: Articles
Last Year An IRB Was Commissioned at Selsey Sussex Where There Has Been a Conventional Life-Boat Station Since 1861 the IRB Crew Consists of Three Fishermen—Two
Last year an IRB was commissioned at Selsey, Sussex, where there has been a conventional life-boat station since 1861. The IRB crew consists of three fishermen—two who fish for lobsters and one who fishes for white fish. Here they are shown... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
False Alarms. A Warship's Experiments: A Picnic Party's Fire: A Message In a Bottle
A Warship's Experiments: A Picnic Party's Fire: A Message in a Bottle.
THREE more have to be added to the many and varied false alarms which have called out Life-boats.* On 25th August last, the Motor Life-boat at...
Category: Articles
Index to the Branches
PACK PAGE PAGE PAGE | FAOF ABERDEEN . . 502 CHELTENHAM . . 464 HAYLING . . .465 NKWBIGGIN . . 484 1...
Category: Branches
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The Life-boat Ellen and Eliza was launched at 10.50 P.M. on the 6th February, 1899, in keenly frosty weather, while a moderate southerly breeze was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea and a thick haze, and went...
Category: Services