LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Signals of Distress and for Pilots
In our last number, under the head of " Signals of Distress," we inserted a new scheme of day and night signals for pilot- age and distress, proposed by the Board of Trade. We now give a copy of those signals as contained in a...
Category: Articles
May Ann
ST. ANDREW'S.—The sloop May Ann, of and for St. Andrew's, from Shields, with a cargo of coal, arrived off the harbour on the afternoon of the 16th January, and waited for the tide to rise sufficiently high to enable her to enter.<...
Centenary Publications and Souvenirs
" Britain's Life-boats : The Story of a Century of Heroic Service." By Major A. J. DAWSON, with an Introduction by H.R.H. the PBI.VCE OF WALES, K.Gr., President of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, and a Fore- word by...
Category: Advertisement
Ada
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 3.50 on the morning of the 22nd of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the trawler Ada of Vlaardingen had grounded on Howick Rocks three miles north of Boulmer.
The life...
An Aeroplane and a Naval Drifter
SEPTEMBER 10TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 10.30 in the morning a message was received from the police at Bowmore that an aeroplane had been reported down in the sea near the entrance to Loch Killisport, Knapdale. This was confirmed by...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To ROBEBT EsoiAND, on his retirement, after To RICHARD WmiAMS, on bis retirement, serving 25 years as Signalman, and formerly after serving ten years as Second Coxswain, 17 years as a member of the crew of the and one year as Bowman of the...
Category: Awards
Barbie Ann
Newhaven, Sussex. At 12.14 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, a trawler was seen burning flares a quarter of a mile south of the Martello tower. There was a moderate south-westerly breeze with a corresponding sea. The tide was flooding. The...
New Life-Boat Engines. The First Life-Boat to Be Fitted With Wireless
By Captain Howard F- J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
IN 1922 the Institution, which, had then had nearly twenty years of experience with Motor Life-boats, designed an engine to meet the special and...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart
IN our issue of November, 1911, we observed that the Board of Trade had issued their "Abstracts on Shipping Casualties" earlier than usuai, thus enabling us to publish our article on the Wreck Register in November instead of...
Category: Articles
Presidential Visit
HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, is pictured talking to (from left to right) crew member John Gorman, and Helmsmen Geraint Wheeler, Tom Ridgway, Sandro James and Cliff Bates all of Aberystwyth during a two day tour of Cardigan... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs