LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"S.O.S.": A Life-Boat Duologue
By Commander Stopford C. Douglas, R.N., Deputy-Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
Broadcast by Sir Gerald du Maurier and Miss Mabel Terry-Lewis.
[This duologue was broadcast by the British Broadcasting...
Category: Articles
Ten Crews Rescued In Seven Hours
ON the 29th July the St. Ives Life-boat performed a series of arduous services, going out five times to the rescue of no fewer than ten vessels, and saving forty men, in the course of seven hours.
On the 28th July a strong...
Category: Services
Edina
DEAL.—Signals were observed at about 9 P.M. on the 26th January in the direction of the Brake Sand, and the Gull Lightship also sent up rockets. A strong W.S.W. gale was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea. The crew of the Mary Somervilla...
Lighting the Beach
SAILORS have always been famous for the keenness of their vision, and more especially for a power, beyond that of the average man of seeing clearly at night; but of those who serve the sea, none perhaps has this gift in larger measure than...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To WILLIAM J. BAKER, on his retirement, after serving for 25J years as coxswain of the Padstow life-boat, a coxswain's certificate •of service and an annuity.
To JAMES TAIT, on his retirement, after serving for 15f...
Category: Awards
Volvo
TRUST VOLVO TO LAUNCH A CAR LIKE THIS.
A car with an airbag and pre-tensioners as standard. A car with advanced side impact protection. A car with a rigid steel safety cage. A car you can believe in. (Oh yes, and a car you...
Category: Advertisement
Bucklers Hard Boat Builders Ltd.,
Lady Hamilton would have approved! Bucklers Hard Boat Builders offer a comprehensive facility that includes a Rill repair & maintenance, custom build facility (power & sail), mobile crane up to 35 tons, summer & winter...
Category: Advertisement
Celine
On the 18th March theLife-boat Lcetitia saved the crew of the schooner Celine, which -was wrecked on the Holm Sand in a strong N.B. gale.
The master having refused to abandon his vessel, the Life-boat had to return to the...
Windermere
NEW EOMHET, KENT.—Distress signals having been shown by the barque Windermere, of Newcastle, bound from London for Eangoon, with a general cargo, during a moderate E.S.E. gale and a heavy sea, on the 17th of January, the crew of the Sandal...
Miss Hughes
PORTHDINLLAEN.—The schooner Miss Hughes, of and from Carnarvon, laden with slate for London, showed signals of distress, as she was dragging her anchors and drifting towards the rocks at Nevin Point, in a moderate gale from N.'W. and...