LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lecture on Life-Boats
I.—Preliminary Remarks, IN a country bounded on all sides by the sea, whose earliest associations are connected with it, through the medium of which it has derived its civilization, its wealth, its grand political status, and probably to a...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—On the night of the 24th October, 1868, during a whole | gale from the W.N.W., the steamer Au- gusta, of Bristol, went on the Doom Bar i Sand. When her signals of distress were i seen from the shore, the " City of...
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Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1930. Presentation of Prizes In the Greater London and South-Eastern Districts
Presentation of Prizes in the Greater London and South-Eastern Districts.
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the 20th October, the Mayor of West- minster (Captain J. F. C. Bennett) pre- sided at the presentation of the...
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Stephen Whittle Coxswain of Dunmore East Lifeboat By Ray Kipling
DUNMORE EAST is a fishing port at the mouth of Waterford Harbour in southeastern Ireland, just off the busy shipping lanes leading from the Atlantic Ocean up St George's Channel and into the Irish Sea. The shore sweeps down to Hook Head...
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Towing Lines. a Discussion
Towing was an appropriate topic of conversation between this year's medal winning coxswains and Cdr George Cooper, the RNLl's deputy chief of operations. In three out of the four services recognised the casualty was towed to safety...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 8th April, 1868: 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-...
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Lifeboat Services
South East Division Three rescued in hurricane SILVER MEDAL IN THE EARLY HOURS of Friday, October 16, 1987, hurricane force south-southwesterly winds of force 16-17, gusting at times to more than 100 knots, left a trail of destruction along...
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Lighting the Beach
SAILORS have always been famous for the keenness of their vision, and more especially for a power, beyond that of the average man of seeing clearly at night; but of those who serve the sea, none perhaps has this gift in larger measure than...
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Cullercoats Disaster. Six Lives Lost In a Capsize on a Practice Launch
JUST after two in the afternoon of 22nd April, the Cullercoats motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched on exercise. She is a boat of the light Liverpool type, 35 feet 6 inches by 10 feet 3 inches, weighing seven tons with her crew...
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Coxswain Swan's Broadcast Appeal. A Response of Over £750
A Response of over £750.
ON Sunday, 2nd March, through the kindness of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Institution was allowed to make a three-minute appeal as " the week's good cause." This...
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