LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bridget Carmel
Half the power- but thiejob's still donenile some RNLI's services are carried out in extreme weather conditions the majority ' are more 'rotifine' but still require proven and reliable equipment in addition to a high...
ICS Electronics
TH€ VANTAGE PRO Vantage PRO weather stations offer forecasting, on-screen graphing for every sensor, and multiple alarm settings.
Monitor UV temperature, wind, rain, barametric pressure, humidity and more. Quick-view icons...
Category: Advertisement
Longest Winter Service
THE annual award of a case of rum to the life-boat crew which has carried out the longest winter service has been made by the Sugar Manufacturers' Association (of Jamaica) Limited to the crew of the Islay, Hebrides, lifeboat, for a...
Category: Services
Channel Tripper
Hastings, Sussex.—On the afternoon of the 20th of November, 1955, anxiety was felt for the safety of an angling party, which had put off earlier in the day, and at 5.16 the life-boat M.T.C. was launched. The sea was slight, there was a light...
The Spanish Life-Boat Society
MADRID, Jane 5.—At its annual general meeting the Spanish Life-boat Society was able this year to say that since its founda- tion in 1880 it had established 67 local branches, many of them self-supporting, 30 stations provided with...
Category: Articles
An American Superfortress Aeroplane (3)
Great' Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 6.30 in the evening, on the 7th of June, 1950, an American Superfortress aeroplane crashed eight miles north-north-east of Smith's...
A Charity Competition
A CHAKITY competition, in which the Committee of Management have given permission for the Institution's name to be included, is to be started at the beginning of next year by the Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk...
Category: Articles
Rapid
Soon after midnight on the 28th February, during a fresh gale from the S.E.
and a rough sea, the Coastguard watchman reported that a vessel was burning signals of distress in the roadstead. The coxswain of the Life-boat...
The Converted Ship's Boat St. David
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 10.45 on the night of the 14th of July, 1952, infor- mation was received from the JBallan- trae coastguard that signals had been reported from a small boat near Lendalfoot, and the life-boat crew were assembled. The...
Samsal
Stranded yacht AS DUSK FELL ON Tuesday, October 6, 1987, Liverpool Coastguard MRSC advised New Brighton's station honorary secretary, Captain John Billington, that a small yacht, believed to be the 24ft Samsal, had been observed possibly...