LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pitness
Soon after midday on the 27th March the coastguard telephoned that a steam drifter three miles N.E. of Troup was flying a " Not under control " signal.
The motor life-boat Lady Rothes put out at 12.40 P.M. In the...
Signals for Pilots
Required to be used and displayed on and after the 1st November, 1873, in accordance with the ISth section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1873, if a vessel requires the services of a Pilot.
"In the Day-time.—The...
Category: Articles
Reorganisation of Districts
Ix April 1954 it was decided to make certain changes in the appointments of the life-boat district inspectors in view of the impending retirement of the Southern District Inspector. At the same time it was decided to reorganise the districts...
Category: Committee
S.S. James Otis, of San Francisco
FEBRUARY 7TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
At 3.45 in the morning the naval authorities at Salcombe informed the coxswain that a ship was ashore at Lannacombe Bay. A fresh west-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea...
Kia Ora
— The motor life-boat White Star was launched at 9.15 P.M. on the 27th July, as the coastguard had telephoned that a motor fishing boat was in distress about eighty yards oft the rocks E.S.E. of Kemmaes Head. A moderate N. wind was blowing....
Sunderland Lifeboat Station
On your bike: Harry Brown, setting off from Sunderland, only to return there 7 hours, 48 minutes and 41 seconds later having covered 154 miles on the way to York Minster and back. Sponsors were asked to estimate the time he would take and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three Years of War.
In three years of war our life-boats have rescued 4775 lives. They have rescued more lives in these three years of war than in the last thirteen years of peace. In the four years of the last war they rescued 19 lives every week. In the...
Category: Articles
Prosperity
— During a moderate S.S.E. gale on the 5th April a vessel was observed at 4.15 P.M. with a signal of distress flying, and as it was apparent that she required assistance, the Life-boat James Stevens No. 7 was sent out. The Life-boat reached...
An Aeroplane (2)
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— 30th September, 1938. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but she had, in fact, only been flying low.
Capt. D. H. Gibsone, D.S.O., R.I.N., honorary secretary of the branch,...
An Aeroplane (6)
Shoreha m Harbour, Sussex.—27th June, 1939. An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but a fishing boat rescued the pilot. The life-boat towed in the aeroplane.—Rewards, £5 2s. 6d.
(For a full account see "Shoreboat...