LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wireless Telegraphy
THE Marconi system of wireless tele- graphy aMr. MARCONI is still engaged in further developing this part of his invention, and if he is able to overcome the liability of messages to get into wrong hands or to be otherwise interfered with,...
Category: Articles
The Guided Missile Destroyer U.S.S. Sellers
Eleven rescued ON THE MORNING OF Monday, November 1, 1976, the uss Sellers, a guided missile destroyer, arrived in Jersey waters to pay a courtesy visit. It was originally intended that she should anchor in St Aubin's Bay but as the wind...
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st December to 29th February: Launches 201, lives saved 67 DECEMBER No. 3 Life-boat Area Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 8.49 p.m.
on 16th December, 1967, the coastguard informed...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division 141 hour service in severe gale A MESSAGE FROM THE YACHT Coronade to the Sunk Pilot Cutter, saying that a red flare had been sighted southward, in the direction of the Long Sand, was intercepted by Walton Coastguard at 1621...
Category: Services
SPRING INTO A NEW BOOK
FOR SWIMMERS
Swell
by Jenny Landreth
For centuries, women in the water fell into three categories: mermaids luring sailors to their doom, witches being dunked, and those of questionable moral fibre. This fun...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
ON MARCH 4, 1984, the RNLI will celebrate the 160th anniversary of its foundation in 1824. The event in itself is perhaps of minor importance—just another milestone—but what it represents is of far greater significance: the unbroken record...
Category: Articles
A Navigation Barge
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of December, 1957, the police passed on to the coxswain a message from the navigation barge moored off Lytham that one of the watchmen had fallen and broken several ribs....
The Admiralty Motor Fishing Vessel 609
FAULTY WIRELESS At 9.30 p.m. on I3th May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that distress flares had been seen 20 miles south-south-west of St. Anne's Head. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds was...
Two Rubber Dinghies
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 1.40 in the afternoon, on the 17th of July, 1950, the Skegness police reported two rubber dinghies adrift off Huttoft. At two o'clock the life-boat Anne Allen was launched in a strong south-south-west breeze...
The Medallists: (I to R) Coxswain Derek Scott Bem the Mumbles; Coxswain William Jones Holyhead; Coxswain Griffiths Jones Porthdinllaen; Coxswain Arthur Lidd
The medallists: (I. to r.) Coxswain Derek Scott, BEM, The Mumbles; Coxswain William Jones, Holyhead; Coxswain Griffiths Jones, Porthdinllaen; Coxswain Arthur Liddon, Dover; Second Coxswain Peter Gibbons, Lowestoft; Former Second Coxswain... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs