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Life-Boat Regulations

Date: June 1852

Volume: 01

Issue: 04

THE following regulations are intended for guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the National Shipwreck Insti- tution, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...

Category: Articles

Sixty-Two Rescued

Date: Winter 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 357

ON the 17th of January this year—a night of a north-westerly gale and sleet showers—the motor vessel Tapti, of London, ran aground on the Eileen Soa rocks in the Gunna Sound between the islands of Tiree and Coll in the Outer Hebrides. She...

Category: Services

Busy Holiday Months

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

THE summer of this year has not been as busy a time for the life-boats as the record summer of 1948, but during June, July and August life-boats were launched 169 times and rescued 92 lives.

In 88 of those 169 launches the...

Category: Services

Invergordon (Continued from Page 166)

Date: Spring 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 456

(continued from page 166) breeding ground of many severe squalls and walls of white squalls were whistling across the firth, bringing'snow and stinging spray in their path.

Outside the firth, in the open sea, the south...

Category: Articles

The German Life-Boat Society During the War

Date: November 1922

Volume: 24

Issue: 277

THE War, which caused such an inter- ruption in neatly every branch of national and international life, very soon led to a complete cessation of the exchange of journals and reports between this Institution and the Life-boat Services of our...

Category: Articles

Costeiro Terceiro

Date: March 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 411

CLOSE TO SANDS At 10.13 P-m- on 29tn December, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the South Goodwin lightvessel had reported that a vessel needed help because she was driving towards the Goodwin sands. Later the coastguard...

Life-Boat Oars

Date: July 1866

Volume: 06

Issue: 61

LIFE-BOAT OARS.

As a life-boat has, in the majority of eases, to be propelled by oars, and as, in order to rescue a shipwrecked crew, she has generally to be rowed to windward against a heavy sea and strong wind, it...

Category: Articles

The Record of 1926

Date: February 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 289

1926 was, in. its weather, a normal year, with severe gales in October and November. During the year there were 269 launches of Life-boats on service, 65 more than in 1925, and 456 lives were rescued from shipwreck, 73 more than in 1925. Of...

Category: Annual Reports

Improved Rollers for Lifeboat Carriages and Skids

Date: October 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 78

Is No. 43 of this Journal we described and illustrated the portable " Roller Skids " on which life-boats are hauled out of the wafer prior to placing them on their carriages, and in the 59th number an improved self-lubri- cating...

Category: Articles

A Dinghy

Date: December 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 328

Margate, Kent.—On the evening of the 18th July it was reported that a dinghy with a boy on board had been missing from Tankerton since the afternoon.

A moderate S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor...