LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

R/T procedure changes THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE modifications introduced in the new edition of the Handbook for Radio Operators should be noted: Control of distress traffic: The word 'PRUDENCE' (pronounced PRU-DONCE) has been...

PENSION.—On the 31st December, while a strong S.W. gale was blowing, a brigantinewas observed with a signal of distress flying in her main rigging. The Life-boat Christopher Brown was launched, and, on boarding the vessel, found her to be...

New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.10 on the evening of the 7th May, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that a yacht with a crew of three was in distress off Cressington Park. Twelve minutes later, when the life-boat Norman B....

Dunbar, East Lothian. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 19th of March, 1958, a message was received that a fishing boat was in need of help twelve miles east-north-east of Dunbar.

At 10.25 the life-boat...

CLIFF FATALITY Weymouth, Dorset. At 1.45 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, the coastguard at Wyke Regis told the honorary secretary that a girl had fallen over the cliffs at White Nothe and appeared to be seriously injured. There was a moderate...

JUNE 3RD. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 9.30 A.M. the coxswain was informed that the fishing boat Speedwell, of New Brighton, had broken from her moorings and gone aground between the Perch Rock lighthouse and Harrison Drive, and that three...

FRENCH YACHT DISMASTED Bembridge, Isle of Wight. A French yacht was seen to be in difficulties with a broken mast two miles north west of the Nab Tower at 8.51 p.m. on 9th July, 1965. She had anchored near the Dean Tail buoy. The life-boat...

NEWHAVEN-BOUND Life-boat O.N. 873 on passage. At 5.25 p.m. on 3ist July, 1964, while the life-boat George Elmy was on her way from Dover to Newhaven in a moderate sea and a fresh westerly breeze, someone was seen waving from a small motor...