The recent sad accidents at Lytham and at Rhyl, by the upsetting of the life-boats stationed at these two places, are so calculated to destroy confidence in all life-boat: among those unacquainted with the exact circumstances of the case,...
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THE Life-Saving Service of the United States comprised at the close of the fiscal year which ended on the 30th June, 1904, 273 stations, no increase in the number having taken place during the year. Of those stations 196 were situated on the...
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NORTH BERWICK.—One of the newest type of Life-boats has been placed on this station. It is 34 feet long, 1 feet wide, rows ten oars, double banked, and is provided with a transporting carriage. The cost was defrayed from a bequest given to...
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THE British and Norwegian crews of the whaling ships Southern Em- press and Southern Princess, on their return from their whaling season in the Antarctic, sent the Institution £51 2s. 3d..
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At 5.12 P.M. on the 14th May the coast- guard at Seaton Sluice telephoned that a steam trawler was flying " not under control " signals about five miles east of the station. A strong N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea, and the...
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
IN the Yarmouth Mercury on 5th March last, under the heading " Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-boat's Fame in Australia," a letter was published "which had been received by a Gorleston man from his son in Australia. He...
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AT a life-boat service held at Lande- wednack Parish Church, and attended by the crews of the Lizard, Cadgwith and Coverack life-boats, on 22nd August, 1954, a diocesan lay reader took as his text Acts 27 verse 20: And when neither sun nor...
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IN the 21st Number of the Life-Boat Journal we introduced this important subject to our readers in connection with a new mode of treatment proposed by the eminent physiologist, the late Dr. MARSHALL HALL.
Again, in our...
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