LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Anchors: Old Forms and Recent Developments
By Captain ANTHONY S. THOMSON, C.B., Elder Brother of Trinity House, Commander B.N.B.
Reprinted from the " Journal of the Royal United Service Institution," by permission.
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Category: Articles
October
Launches 30. Lives rescued 19.
OCTOBER 6TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. Shortly after two in the morning the Ramsey coastguard informed both life-boat stations that a ship was in distress W.S.W. of the...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT GROUNDS TWICE ON GALE-LASHED SANDBANK Four rescued in gale from stranded yacht The Director of the RNLI, Lt Cdr Brian Miles, has written to the honorary secretary of Lytham St Annes lifeboat station, Frank Kilroy, to congratulate...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
IT is intended in this and each future number of the Life-boat Journal to give our readers a short account of two or more of the stations of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
These sketches—for they will be of that...
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Outboard: Speed and Power
ATLANTIC 21 AND D CLASS inshore lifeboats, out on trials, are a familiar sight in the Solent; testing and proving the vast amount of detailed development work which, over the past 15 years or so, has been quietly going ahead at the RNLI...
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Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE following is a copy of a Circular which has been addressed by the Royal National Life-boat Institution to the local Committees of its several Life-boat Branches on the coasts of the United Kingdom. The Circular explains at length the...
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April
Launches 42 Lives rescued 16 APRIL 1ST. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMAPRIL BERLAND. At 1.40 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the local fishing coble Fisher Lass was overdue. There was a dense fog, and a heavy swell was breaking on the...
Category: Services
News from the Branches
Lyme Regis.
The Annual Meeting of the Branch was held on the 27th October, Dr. H. J.
Cooper, the Chairman of the Committee, being in the chair. The Annual Report for the year ending the 30th September last...
Category: Branches
News from the Branches. 1st November, 1933, to 31st January, 1934
1st November, 1933, to 31st January, 1934.
Greater London.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drive.
CROYDON.—Lantern lectures at Wood- side by Mr. F. C. Ashby and the district organizing...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th January, 1869. THOMAS CHAP- MAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.<...
Category: Committee