LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
THE DUKE OF ATHOM-, chairman of the Institution, reported to the annual general meeting of governors on Tuesday morning. May 17, that during 1982 lifeboats launched 3.304 times, the highest number since the foundation of the RNLI, and saved...
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Ranger
TOW FOR MOTOR BOAT WITH THREE ABOARD Penlee, Cornwall. At 8.50 on the evening of the 13th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had broken down and was drifting on to the rocks at Carn Du. The...
Service By the Torry Life-Saving Apparatus
Ox the afternoon of the 18th January the steam trawler Ben Screel, of Aber- deen, with a crew of ten on board, went ashore on the rocks opposite the Girdle- ness Lighthouse, near Aberdeen. A strong south-easterly wind was blowing with a...
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Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 4
THE years 1850-1, next to the year 1785, were those of the greatest importance in the history of the Coast Life-boat, and in fact of- the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION also, for, as has often been pointed out, apathy in the Life-boat...
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The Padstow Steam Life-Boat James Stevens No, 4 Photographed In 1899 and a Year Before She Capsized on 11Th April, 1900, With the Loss of Eight of Her Crew. (Left) the Padstow Life-Boat Arab
The Padstow steam life-boat James Stevens No, 4 photographed in 1899 and a year before she capsized on 11th April, 1900, with the loss of eight of her crew.
(Left) The Padstow life-boat Arab pictured on 11th April, 1900,... - View image in PDF
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Notes of the Quarter
THE RNLI INQUIRY into the capsizes of Barra Island and Islay lifeboats off the west coast of Scotland last November, reported on page 6, has concluded that both lifeboats were overwhelmed by heavy breaking seas in violent storm conditions...
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Is This An Answer? the Story of the Lifeboat Memorial Book By the Lord Saltoun, MC
A SOCIETY can be very highly organised without being at all civilised. To send a rocket to a distant planet is a wonderful demonstration of a society's technical and scientific capacity, but tells one nothing about its degree of...
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Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the October, November, December, and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the October, November, December, and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
October Meeting.
EOSSLARE HARBOUR, Co. WEXFORD.
—On 20th September the Royal Firth, of...
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An Aeroplane (117)
AUGUST 9TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK.
During an air raid at night an aeroplane had been seen burning at sea, but it disappeared before the life-boat could reach it and only a patch of oil was found. - Rewards, £17...
An American Air Ambulance
On July zyth. an American air ambulance struck the cliffs of the Mull of Galloway and crashed on the shore. She was going to America, by way of Prestwick, and she had wounded soldiers from Normandy and nurses on board.
The...
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