LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Propulsion of Life-Boats
IN our last number we considered the question as to the application of steam- power to Life-boats, and pointed out what we considered the insuperable difficulties in the way of its use. At the same time, however, who indicated that greater...
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Life-Boat Saturday Fund
ON 3rd November, 1910, the following notice appeared in the Press :— With a view to economy and to unity of effort and control, the work of collecting money for the Royal National Life-boat Insti- tution hitherto done in certain directions...
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November (1)
NOVEMBER MEETING WALMER, KENT. Shortly after 6 in the evening of the 17th August, 1941, a British Beaufort bomber crashed into the sea between Kingsdown and Walmer, some 400 yards off shore. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, with a choppy sea....
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January
JANUARY Launches 63 Lives rescued 100 JANUARY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.10 in the afternoon the naval control told the coxswain that two ships had been in collision between No. 1 and No. 2 Sea Reach Buoys. There was a thick...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th January, 1876: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck...
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Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1928
Presentation of Prizes in the London District.
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the llth March, the Mayor of Westminster (Major V. B. Rogers, D.S.O., M.C.) presided at the Presentation of the Prizes won in the Life-boat...
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The Life-Boat Service and the War
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 144 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 16 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to 31st October, 1939 ... - 66,604 The Life-boat Service and the...
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Books
Some recent publications reviewed Mumbles Lifeboat by Carl Smith, published by Sou'wester Books at £3.50 ISBN 09515281 06 The history of the Mumbles lifeboat station is a long and gallant one, and the author has captured both the...
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Bookshelf
s o m e r e c e n t p u b l i c a t i o n s r e v i e w e d SHIPWRECK! by Ian Dear Published by Batsford at £17.95 ISBN 0713459530 Ian Dear has collected an interesting, if chilling, collection of photographs to illustrate his theme of...
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