LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Somebody's sure to spot you, if• •• you have a SARBE BE369 aboard, because this new Flotation Distress Beacon automatically transmits sequentially on both the civil (VHP) and the military (UHF) aviation distress frequencies.

Books Destroyer An anthology of first-hand accounts of the war at sea 1939-1945 Edited by Ian Hawkins Published by Conway Maritime Press ISBN 1844860086 paperback £9.99 Ian Hawkins cleverly blends excerpts from other books on the Second...

CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—A messenger reported that a schooner had gone on the rocks at the east side of Cemlyn Bay, at about 5 o'clock on the morning of the 28th July, during a fresh E. wind. The crew of the Life-boat Good Shepherd were at once...

Brighton and Shoreham lifeboat crews joined forces to assist fire officers during a fire that gutted the south end of Brighton's West Pier on 28 March 2003 The fire was raging out of control on the pier, with no way for fire teams to...

Aberdeen.—At 6.37 in the morning of the 13th of January, 1949, informa- tion was received from the Pilot Station that a vessel was aground to the north of the north pier, Aberdeen Bay, but was not making signals of...

Four Winds, Wade Lane, Wade Court Road, Havant, Hampshire.

16th September, 1956.

DEAR SIR, I am writing to express my extreme gratitude to the coxswain and crew of the Selsey life-boat for their rescue of...

Signals of distress from the Middle Lightship were observed on the morning of the 19th January. The same Life-boat was launched and proceeded to a schooner which was found to be sunk with the lower masts' heads out of water. As no one...

A 24-MiNUTE film on the life-boat service, Part-Time Heroes, won a silver cup presented by the Ministry of Naval Defence when shown this year at a review of maritime docu- mentaries during the Milan Fair.

The film shows a...