LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Signals of Distress and for Pilots
In our last number, under the head of " Signals of Distress," we inserted a new scheme of day and night signals for pilot- age and distress, proposed by the Board of Trade. We now give a copy of those signals as contained in a...
Category: Articles
Phoenix, Admiral, Mary, James,and Mary Anne
THURSO, N.B.—On the evening of the 7th March, the wind blew a heavy gale here from the N.N.W. to N.W., and the harbour master and Custom House officer at Scrabster were apprehensive that if the sea got heavier as the night advanced, the...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To W. J. HANNANT, on his retirement on the closing of the Station, after serving 11 years as Bowman of the Hasborough Life-boat, a Pension.
To CHARLES H. HARVEY, on his retirement on the closing of the Station, after...
Category: Awards
Star of Hope, Freda and Minnie
On the morning of the 1st May the local motor fishing cobles put out to haul crab pots. A moderate N. wind was blowing, with a considerable ground swell, and at 10.30 A.M. with the tide ebbing the sea broke heavily across the bay, making the...
Life-Boatman and Coastguard In Support
The new coat oi arms of Ramsgate, where the life-boat station has rescued 1,365 lives'since 1865. - View image in PDF
(Reproduced by courtesy of the Borough of Ramsgate.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Venus, Gallilee, Success, Pilot Me and Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 15th March, 1939, five Whitby fishing vessels put to sea at 5 A.M. A strong N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy broken sea. The sea increased and at 10 A.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann...
William Cale and Motor Fishing Boat Delight
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At six o'clock on the morning of the 17th of December, 1952, the coastguard tele- phoned that a message had been received from the trawler William Cale, of London, that her trawl gear had fouled her propeller...
Happy Home, Florence and Ross Gill
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 8.15 on the evening of the 9th of February, 1953, the coxswain learned from the skipper of the fishing boat Happy Home that the motor fishing drifter Florence, of Glandore, was burning flares south- east of...