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Bogus Distress Signals

Date: June 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 408

MR. HECTOR HUGHES, Labour M.P. for Aberdeen North, raised the question of recent bogus distress signals fired at sea off the Scottish coast in the House of Commons in January.

Emphasizing that Scottish life-boat men had put...

Category: Articles

Eastbourne's D Class Inflatable

Date: Autumn 1997

Volume: 56

Issue: 542

Eastbourne's D class inflatable comes ashore after another service later in the year. On the night that Ian Stringer won his Silver Medal it was pitch black, there was a 6ft sea, the lifeboat's port sponson was holed and she was full... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

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Date: September 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 315

The motor life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched at 7.15 A.M. on the 3rd June, in a moderate S.E. breeze, with a moderate sea, and landed the body of a man who had died on board the Lucifer lightship, which is stationed about eight miles N.E. of...

John Clemens Kennedy

Date: Summer 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 541

December John Clemens Kennedy JP, Newquay branch chairman since 1965. Also an crew member until he was 45, Mr Kennedy was awarded the gold badge in 1986 and gold bar in 1994..

Category: Obituaries

Your shout

Date: Summer 2012

Volume: 61

Issue: 600 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2012

Following your feature on lifejacket development (Spring 2012), here's what happened to me in 1971 or so. I was in the Blessington Sailing Club in Co Wicklow. Despite the Finn class boats experiencing such conditions that their event was...

Category: Articles

Broughty Castle

Date: November 1893

Volume: 15

Issue: 170

DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 6th February, while a gale of wind was blowing from the S.S.W. and a heavy sea was running, the schooner Broughty Castle, of Londonderry, coal laden, from Swansea for Douglas, was being towed into port by a small...

Penita

Date: Spring 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 476

Two maydays FOLLOWING A MAYDAY from the yacht Penita received by Dover Coastguard on Friday August 29, 1980, Ramsgate lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney Ralph and Joy Swann, launched at 2330 under the command of Second Coxswain Derek Pegden, the...

R Wright & Son

Date: Spring 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 460

Something special ? Wright away sir! ,* !.

TANKS For almost half a century Wrights have specialised in the fabrication of tanks from 5 to 50,000 gallons in stainless steel, aluminium, or mild steel, either one-otf or on a...

Category: Advertisement

Annie Gray

Date: July 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 73

On the 6th December, the ship Annie Gray was indistress during stormy weather off this place. The Admiral Henry Meynell life- boat was quickly launched, and remained alongside the vessel some hours until she was out of danger..

Patho

Date: August 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 185

CLACTON.—Two telegrams having been received, one from the coxswain of the Southend Life-boat and the other from Maplin Lighthouse, reporting a vessel on the sands and showing signals of distress, on the 16th January, the Life-boat Albert...