LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854
IN various parts of the Life-boat Journal, we have expressed a strong conviction of the utter inadequacy of all existing means for affording succour to shipwrecked persons around our coasts. We have mourned over it as a national discredit,...
Category: Articles
The Communications Equipment Fitted to the Prototype Severn Class. the Left Hand Control Panel Is the Mf Radio, With the Vhp Radio Third from the Left
The communications equipment fitted to the prototype Severn class. The left hand control panel is the MF radio, with the VHP radio third from the left. The remaining two panels are for an automated distress system operating on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Barges Ada and Charles Little
SOUTHEND, ESSEX.—A gale of wind having sprung up on the 2nd March, it was feared that the barge Ada, which had arrived from London with a load of granite, would be in need of help. She was lying about half a mile S.E. of the pier-head. The...
Gaelic Ferry, of London
SICK MAN LANDED Bringing sick people ashore from ships for prompt hospital treatment is another frequent call on the life-boat service. At 10.18 p.m. on llth February, 1971, it was learnt that the Gaelic Ferry of London was steaming towards...
On the Self-Righting Principle In Life Boats
SINCE the publication of the Report of the Northumberland Life-boat Committee, a good deal has been said and written on the subject of the self-righting principle in life-boats in the event of their being upset, a quality which was strongly...
Category: Articles
Helen Birch, of Hull,
Wells, Norfolk.—About 1.30 P.M. on the 8th December, 1937, information was received from a man and from the coastguard that a ship was flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 was launched at 2.50 P.M....
Kenfine, of Dover
Dover, Kent - At 1.47 p.m. on I2th July, 1966, the harbour control station informed the honorary secretary that an auxiliary motor yacht was dismasted and in difficulties about one mile and a half south of the breakwater. Her engine had...
Coxswain Michael Scales St.Peter Port
Coxswain Michael Scales, St Peter Port On October 11, 1983, Coxswain Scales rescued seven people aboard the yacht Wild Rocket in a force 8 west-north-westerly gale. He succeeded in manoeuvring the Arun class lifeboat Sir William Arnold close... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Swan, of Skibbereen
JUNE 8TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK.
The reserve motor life-boat City of Bradford was being taken by a Ballycotton crew from Ballycotton to Baltimore, when about 2.30 in the afternoon she saw a fishing boat two miles...
Robert Bruce, of Belfast
— The brig Robert Bruce, of Belfast, while attempting, on the 7th February, to get into Maryport Harbour, fell to leeward and struck the ground to the northward, and although the anchors were let go, she beat up into the surf The sea made a...