LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Her Last Service
Channel Island Lifeboat to go to Cowes, the Jersey boat could not get a crew and the Institution asked the Guernsey boat to fetch her, That was on the 28th. When the Guernsey boat arrived at St. Helier in the evening German aeroplanes were...
Category: Articles
Cedarine, of Burmuda
At 3'40 A.M. on the 2nd April, the barque Cedarine, of Bermuda, stranded near Brighstone Grange, with 234 persons on board, 191 of whom were convicts, whose period of punishment at Bermuda had ex- pired. The Brighstone Grange life-boat...
Ann of Lonan
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 12.40 in the early morning of the 4th of February, 1950, the coastguard reported that dis- tress flares were being burned off Douglas Bay. At one o'clock the life- boat Millie Walton was launched in a heavy sea...
Emperor and Girl of Devon
CAISTER.— At 9 P.M. on the 13th October, the No. 2 Life-boat Godsend was launched during a strong gale from the N. and a very heavy sea, signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Emperor, of Banff, and the three-masted schooner...
The S.S. Southern Broom
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 10.44 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1956, the coast- guard telephoned that the S.S.
Southern Broom was making for Yar- mouth with a badly injured man aboard. He asked if...
The Ferry Boat Tim
MAY 3RD. - CROMARTY. At 3 P.M. a message was received from the Seaforth Highlanders Depot at Fort George that theferry boat Tim, running from Fort George to Chanory, with the depot band of twelve men on board, had broken down when half-way...
Gift of 392 Farthings
Two gifts have been received of 392 farthings. One, of 152 farthings, was anonymous. The other, of 240, was a year's collection of farthings made by the women's staff in a London office..
Category: Donations
Decca Were Showing a New Version of Their 050 Mini Radar the Super 050 Principal Impro Vement Is the Doubling of Transmitting Power to 3Kw Price Remains the Sam
Decca were showing a new version of their 050 Mini Radar, the Super 050. - View image in PDF
Principal impro vement is the doubling of transmitting power to 3kW. Price remains the same, from £.785.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Gallant Service at Padstow. Bronze Medal Awarded to the Coxswain
ON llth February, with a gale blowing from W.N.W. and a very heavy sea running, the Norwegian steamer Taormina, of Oslo, with a crew of eighteen, attempted to enter Padstow Harbour when the tide was low. She struck on the Doom Bar, and lay...
Category: Services
Betsy, of Portsmouth
Shoreham Harbour and Newhaven, Sussex.—The Shoreham motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 4.25 A.M. on the 3rd September, as the coastguard had reported red flares some distance W.S.W.
of the harbour....