LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
HOLYHEAD.—While a strong gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and rain, on the evening of the 6th Aug., 1900, the Coxswain of the Life-boat observed a barque dragging her anchors and driving towards the Nimrod rocks. He...
Category: Services
On the Variations of the Reading of the Barometer and the Weather In the Months of September, October and November, 1865
By JAMES GLAISHER, ESQ, F H.S. , THE variations in the readings of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the period from September 12 to November 30, making altogether eighty days, are shown in the accompanying diagram and...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THDBSDAY, 3rd Oct., 1872: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S,, V.P., in the Chair.
.Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 3rd January, 1881.
Colonel FiTzROY CLAYTON, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-...
Category: Committee
The Women of Holy Island. A Fine Launch and a Silver Medal Service
ON Sunday, the 15th January, a south-easterly gale was blowing, with blinding snow-storms. A heavy sea was breaking on Holy Island, and the j weather was bitterly cold. Just before eight o'clock in the evening a...
Category: Medals
Feature: Come Together
On the morning of Thursday 20 May a coach set off early from RNLI HQ in Poole, full of excited and ever-so-slightly nervous RNLI staff. They were destined for the Barbican Hall in London and a day of rare celebration. They were to Literally...
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The Weather of 1873
THE public have to thank Dr. ALLNATT, of Frant, for an excellent review of the weather of the past twelve months. It is always pleasant to be able to correct one's vague recollections by an actual record; and there is, perhaps, no...
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July (1)
MEENLARAGH, Co. DONEGAL. At about four in the afternoon of 7th March, 1942, the motor boat Pride of Drumcliffe, with a crew of six men, was returning to the mainland with mails from Tory Island. As she got near the island in Innishbofin Bay,...
Category: Services
June (1)
JUNE MEETING CARNE, Co. WEXFORD. On the night of the 16th March, 1941, the steam trawler Thomas Booth, of Milford Haven, when on her way to the fishing grounds, ran on to the Whelkeen Rock, a mile off shore, S.S.E. of Wexford. The weather...
Category: Services
Anchors: Old Forms and Recent Developments
By Captain ANTHONY S. THOMSON, C.B., Elder Brother of Trinity House, Commander E.N.R.
Reprinted from the " Journal of tJie Royal United Service Institution," by permission.
There is little...
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