LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
R/T Distress Procedure Changes
R/T procedure changes THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE modifications introduced in the new edition of the Handbook for Radio Operators should be noted: Control of distress traffic: The word 'PRUDENCE' (pronounced PRU-DONCE) has been...
Category: Articles
Bow Over Stern and Floats Upsidedown (Lower Inset)
She capsizes bow over stern and floats upsidedown (lower insetkinti! the crew activate the inflatable ba. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Death of King Edward VII., Patron of the Institution
The Institution in common with the whole Empire, mourns the decease of His Majesty King Edward the Seventh.
First as President and then as Patron, His Majesty took the warmest interest in the affairs of the Institution and...
Category: Obituaries
Prince Ivanhoe (1)
Prince Ivanhoe THE PLEASURE STEAMER Prince Ivanhoe with a crew of 18 and 450 passengers was on a cruise from Minehead to the Welsh Coast on Monday August 3, 1981, when, at 1536. she struck anunderwater obstruction off Port...
The Converted Naval Pinnace Doris
Night search TWO RED FLARES sighted by the Coastguards at Gorleston and Happisburgh at 0259 on Sunday, October 21, 1973, were reported to the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston honorary secretary. Some ten minutes later Khami, one of the first of...
Solstad
Broughty Ferry, Angus, and Aberdeen.
—10th October, 1939. The Swedish vessel Solstad, of Karlstad, had been reported in distress with her steering gear disabled, about fifteen miles S.E.
of Montrose, and...
RNLI to Benefit from a Commercial Card
The life-boat service is to benefit from a Christmas card attractively illus- trated by a reproduction of a painting by Richard Eurich, R.A., showing the Britannia lying off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. Through the generosity of the owner of the...
Category: Advertisement
'A twist of fate'
It’s Saturday 14 June, the day before Father’s Day. A gentle swell is building off Redcar, Cleveland. Two boats, each carrying a father and son, are out on fishing trips. The crew of one vessel will soon owe the other their...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Henry Blogg and "Monte."
THE photograph on page 132 shows Coxswain Henry Blogg, of Cromer, with a dog which he rescued from the Italian steamer Monte Nevoso on 16th October of last year. Coxswain Blogg received the Institution's silver medal for this service, in...
Category: Articles
Sir Johnstone Wallace, K.B.E., D.L., J.P.
Sir Johnstone Wallace, K.B.E., D.L., J.P.
By the death of Sir Johnstone Wallace, K.B.E., D.L., J.P., of Newcastle, on 9th November last, the Institution has lost an old and valued supporter. For many years he was closely...
Category: Obituaries