LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Chairman's Message
Chairman's Message The year 1969—the last year of the nineteen-sixties—has been another year of records in terms of services carried out, lives saved and revenue raised. It has also brought us tragedy and sadness, but not without adding...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Tolfaen
LLANDDULAS.—The s.s. Tolfaen, of Liverpool, bound from Liverpool forNewry with wheat, was seen at anchor in Ehos Bay, with a heavy list to port and flying a signal of distress during a strong gale from the N.N.W., and a very heavy sea on the...
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Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Russian Prince
CAISTER, NORFOLK. — On the 14th February, the look-out observed a large steamer, apparently stranded on the Middle Cross Sand and soon afterwards she showed signals of distress. The Life-boat Beauchamp was launched at 12.30 P.M. and found...
Kantule
Cromarty.—At 10.30 in the morning, on the 3rd of December, 1950, the Wick Radio station telephoned that a vessel, off the Cromarty Sutors had asked for help. At 10.45 the life-boat James Macfee was launched. There was a heavy swell with a...
The Line-Throwing Gun. By Captain Howard F. J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
THE problem of establishing communi- cation between the Life-boat and the Lifevessel in distress has for many years occupied the attention of the technical officers of the Institution. Up to the present the only device has been the Cane...
Category: Articles
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations. Presentation of Vellums Signed By the Prince of Wales
Presentation of Vellums signed by the Prince of Wales.
TEN presentations of Centenary Vellums to Stations have taken place during the past summer, making the total of such Vellums presented forty-three. Nine of these...
Category: Articles
Strathavon, of Scarborough
Aberdeen.—Early on the morning of the 13th August the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at or near Portlethen. A gentle southerlybreeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and thick fog. The reserve motor life-boat J. & W., which...
Gifts of Chocolate
The Institution wishes to express its cordial thanks to Messrs. Cadbury, Messrs. Fry, and Messrs. Rowntree for their gifts of thirty tins of chocolate each, which have been sent for use in the Lifeboats. For a number of years these three...
Category: Donations
The American Liberty Ship T. A. Johnston, of Pensecola (1)
DECEMBER 10TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET, AND BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
About ten at night the coastguard reported to the Swanage life-boat station that a steamer was ashore off Egmont Point, west of St. Albans Head. The motor life...