Early on the morning of the 17th July a tele- phone message was received from the Needles Signal Station that a small yacht, anchored W. of Shingle Bank Buoy, was burning flares and making S.O.S. signals on a lamp. A fresh E, breeze was...
MAY 16TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
About 8.30 in the morning five small fishing cobles were expected to return. The tide was ebbing and there was a rough sea on the bar, making it very dangerous to cross. At 9.15 the No. 2...
MOTOR BOAT TOWED IN Torbay, Devon.—At 1.24 in the morning of the 18th of July, 1947, the Brixham coastguard reported that an SOS signal had been flashed close under Berry Head to the eastward, and the motor life-boat George Shee was launched...
ANNUAL AWARDS 1979 The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman during 1979 has been made to Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan for the rescue of the crew of four of the Panamanian cargo vessel Revi in a...
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The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
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UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS.
To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.
SIR, As the saving of life from shipwreck must always be a subject of great interest to the public of this country, by whatever means it may be...
Category: Correspondence
THE following letter comes from a Cornish yachtsman.
"On the 16th of this month, I re- ceived assistance from the Cloughey life-boat, which had been sent out to stand by me by the coastguard.
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The launching tractor is in no danger ot replacement following trials with one dog power haulage at Eastbourne during the supporters' weekend!. - View image in PDF
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Lives saved.
jEron B'ille, schooner, of Aber- ystwith—saved vessel and.... 3 Also landed 7.
Agenoria, schooner, of Chester— stood by vessel.
Albert, schooner, of Boston—...
Category: Services
THROUGH the kind help of the B.B.C. considerable use has been made of the wireless in appealing for the Life-boat Service throughout Scotland.
A special Life-boat programme was given from the Glasgow and Aberdeen wireless...
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