LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Instructions for the Management of Open Boats In Heavy Surfs and Broken Water
IN the 18th Number of this Journal we inserted a Paper on the above subject, compiled in great part from information collected from the boatmen on the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The Committee of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT...
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The Lifeboat Service—Past and Present
Years Ago The following is an extract from the speech by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt (Chairman of the RNLI, 1923-56) at the 1935 Annual General Meeting and reported in THE LIFEBOAT of June 1935.
and then had to go on to New...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a Life-boat establishment at Staithes, near Whitby, where it was con- sidered that a Life-boat would be most useful, especially in helping the fishing boats, which...
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Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
ON the 23rd May last, H.R.H. the DUKE OF EDINBURGH presided at the Anniversary Meeting of this Society, at the Mansion House. His Royal Highness was sup- ported on the occasion by the LORD MAYOR, the DUKE or MARLBOROUGH (Pre- sident of the...
Category: Meetings
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—The first Life- boat service in the year 1872 was, that on the 1st January, by the boat on this station, it happening to be the only service performed by a Life-boat of the Institution on New Year's Day,...
Category: Services
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1875-6
A perusal of the Annual Wreck Register recently issued for the year commencing on the 1st July, 1875, and ending on the 30th June, 1876, is by no means encou- raging. The wrecks and casualties which it so minutely and accurately chronicles...
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Lt-Commander Harold Harvey Divisional Inspector: 'The Responsibility of An Admiral and the Authority of a Midshipman'
Ll'.-Commander Harold Harvey, divisional inspector: 'the responsibility of an admiral and the authority of a midshipman'.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Survivors from the Ferry Laerling Are Landed from Lerwick's Arun Class Lifeboat Soldian.
Survivors from the ferry Laerling are landed from Lerwick's Arun class lifeboat Soldian. Photo Ian Leask. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1903
THE British Public is much indebted to the BOARD OF TKADE for the carefully prepared tables and statistics which it provides year by year in connection with the shipping disasters which occur on or near the coasts of the United...
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A Steamer
JAN. 21ST. - WALMER, KENT. A steamer had been heading for the Goodwin Sands, but changed her course in answer to warning guns from the East Goodwin Lightvessel.- Rewards, £29 0S. 6d.