LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Launching Life-Boats Off Slipways
Results of Tests with regard to Depth of Water, Speed of Launching and Construction.
By CAPTAIN HOWARD F. J. ROWLEY, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.FOR many years past the practice of launching Life-boats off...
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The Daunt Lightship
BaUycotton, Co. Cork.—This motor lifeboat was on service from the llth February to the 14th February, and rescued the crew of eight of the Daunt Lightship.—Rewards, gold medal, silver and bronze medals with vellums, binocular glass, letters...
Saga
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Contents
PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 78 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 79 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 82 AWARDS TO HONORARY WORKERS 90 NEW WAYS OF RAISING MONEY 91 FINANCIAL REPORT 94 FOCUS ON ILFRACOMBE ...
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The S.S. Cormorant
At 9.25 P.M.
on the llth June the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was making distress signals two miles off Sarclet Head, which is about five miles south of Wick. A moderate S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea....
Record
Swanage, Dorset.—On the morning of the 5th August St. Alban's Head coastguard reported that a vessel one and a half miles S.W. of the Head was making signals of distress. A moderate W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor...
Ruby
Peel, Isle of Man.—Shortly after one •o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th •of August, 1950, the harbour master notified the honorary secretary that the local fishing yawl Ruby, overdue with a <^rew of two, had broken down at White...
Skipjack
Ramsgate, Kent.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 25th of October, 1956, a message was received from the east pier that red flares had been seen two miles east of Ramsgate and that the local motor boat Skipjack.
with...
The Bar Lightvessel
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 9.35 on the morning of the 3rd of January, 1957, the marine surveyor of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board telephoned to say that a member of the crew of the Bar lightvessel had been suddenly taken ill. As the...
A Dinghy
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 8.15 in the evening of the 1st of October, 1948, cries for help could be heard off the pier, and at 8.27 the motor life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a light south- westerly breeze...