LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIGHTHOUSE AUTHORITIES Maritime Buoyage System A A COMBINED CARDINAL AND LATERAL SYSTEM, RED TO PORT To be introduced in North West European and many other waters by stages, starting April 1977 FROM APRIL NEXT...

East Division Among sandbanks AT 1621 on Sunday March 31, 1985, a coastguard auxiliary from Brancaster reported to his Great Yarmouth coordination centre that he had a board sailor in sight who was in trouble. He was lying on his board,...

On the 11th November, at 3 A.M., signal rockets were fired from the Gull Lightship, and were answered by a rocket from Ramsgate pier-head. The Life-boat Bradford and steam-tug Aid were at once manned, left the harbour at 3.15, and proceeded...

Whitby, Yorkshire. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 22nd of Novem- ber, 1957, the crew of the fishing boat Faith Star reported on their return from fishing that the sea was breaking on the bar and that conditions were becoming...

DECEMBER 2ND. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 11A.M. the crew assembled for an exercise, but as a strong N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and some fishing boats were out the launch was delayed and the crew stood by. Incoming trawlers...

Life-boat 40-001 at Sheerness, Kent - At 4.10 p.m. on 26th April, 1969, while returning from exercise in a strong south westerly wind with a moderate sea, the life-boat saw a yacht sailing towards Garrison point in a dangerous position close...

[This article appeared in The Lancet for 29th, June 1946, in the feature "In England Now," and is reproduced by kind permission of the author and the editor of The Lancet.] OCCASIONALLY we read in our daily paper "The...

THE Institution has substantially increased the annual retaining fees which it pays to the officers of its life-boats, and others who have regular duties to perform. The coxswain's fee, which varied from £24 to £32 a year...