LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Signals of Distress
Required to Tie used and displayed on and after the 1st November, 1873, in accordance with the 18th section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1873.
"In Die Day-time,—The following si, together or separately, shall be...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (1)
OCTOBER 25TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
The motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 11.40 A.M. as a strong north-easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and a number of local fishing boats were at sea. She escorted the...
Your Letters
Reduce the risks Given the antics of condemed yachtsman Eric Abbott who 'navigates' by road maps, isn't it time to formalise some form of mandatory training before people put to sea. This guy shows total contempt for the...
Category: Correspondence
People and Places
On Station The following lifeboats have taken up duty: All-weather Ballyglass - Severn 17-15 (ON 1235) Bryan and Gordon on 14 August Stromness-Severn 17-16 (ON1236) Violet Dorothy and Kathleen on 22 October Holyhead- Arun 52-37 Kenneth...
Category: Articles
"S.O.S.": A Life-Boat Duologue
By Commander Stopford C. Douglas, R.N., Deputy-Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
Broadcast by Sir Gerald du Maurier and Miss Mabel Terry-Lewis.
[This duologue was broadcast by the British Broadcasting...
Category: Articles
Obituaries
Reigate and Redhill branch has suffered the loss of its president and both vice-presidents in less than a year: Cdr J. D. Walters, RN, was chairman during the 1939 to 1945 war and was subsequently president. George A. Hodgkins, a...
Category: Obituaries
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
IT is gratifying to be able to report that notwithstanding the great difficulties again experienced during the past year by all the workers for the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE - BOAT INSTITUTION, whether in connection with the Branches or the...
Category: Articles
Rose of England
Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 4.35 A.M. on the 21st February the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel had run ashore about a quarter-mile N.E.
of Spurn light-vessel. She was the steam trawler Rose of England, of Grimsby,...
Nora
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—Very early on the morning of the 21st January, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel in Ramsey bay, about five miles E.N.E. from Queen's Pier, was burning flares. A whole S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very...
An Aeroplane (8)
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on- Sea, Essex.—9th September, 1939.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown...