LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fitting Epilogue.
The Institution has received a gift of £25 from the ship's fund of the auxiliary cruiser "H.M.S. Jervis Bay," which was sunk in November, 1940, when very gallantly defending a convoy of British ships from a powerful German...
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Bertha
PAKEFIELD, SUFFOLK.—The brigantine Bertha, of Rye, stranded in Pakefield Gat, during a S.W. wind and heavy sea, on the 26th August. In reply to her signal of distress, the Life-boat Two Sisters Mary and Hannah was launched and proceeded to...
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Ladies of Reigate and Redhill Guild
Sherry and mince pies are a recipe for success, as the ladies of Reigate and Redhill guild proved when they made them the object of a partv held in Reigate Town Hall last November. It look no more than two hours to raise £825 from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
EPIRBs (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons)
EPIRBs (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons) are portable satellite communication units (see a selection below), designed to send an automated distress signal to search and rescue authorities ashore. The RNLI recommends that small... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
North Star
JANUARY 2 7TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
From noon onwards a watch was kept for the local motor fishing boat North Star. A strong north-north-east gale was blowing, with a rough sea and snow showers, and all the other boats had...
Barendsz
APRIL 26TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.
The motor vessel Barendsz, of Rotterdam, was flying a four-flag signal, but it was found to be her name in code and she had only come in close for shelter in an easterly gale. Two...
Aridity (1)
OCTOBER 2lST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. The Walton coastguard reported a message, from Light-vessel No. 89, that a vessel was ashore three and a half miles to the S.E., but the life-boat found that the vessel was the m.v. Aridity, to...
An American Air Ambulance
On July zyth. an American air ambulance struck the cliffs of the Mull of Galloway and crashed on the shore. She was going to America, by way of Prestwick, and she had wounded soldiers from Normandy and nurses on board.
The...
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Manx Lad
Peel, Isle of Man.—At 5.10 P.M. on the 5th December, 1938, the coastguard reported flares six miles N.N.E.
of Peel. A strong and freshening S.W.
breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.
The...