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To the Help of Aeroplanes

Date: September 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 17

Of those 3,000 launches 1,000, or a third, have been to the help of aeroplanes which had come down in the sea..

Category: Articles

The S.S. Sojourner

Date: June 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 310

At 8.20 A.M. on 30th January a message was received from the Coastguard Station that the East Goodwin Light Vessel had reported a steamer ashore to the N.W. of the Light Vessel. The Motor Life-boat Prudential put out and found the vessel to...

Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck

Date: April 1854

Volume: 01

Issue: 12

National Institution FOE THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

ESTABLISHED IN 1824.

SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS.

PATRONESS.

HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...

Category: Advertisement

The S.S. Florence

Date: December 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 336

Arbroath, Angus.—At about 5.20 P.M.

on the 3rd October, 1938, it was noticed that the S.S. Florence, of Liverpool, which had anchored earlier in the afternoon off the harbour entrance, was in difficulties. She was a vessel...

Additional Life-Boats to Come Into Production Will Include Those of the 70-Foot, 48-Foot 6-Inch Solent, 44-Foot Steel and 37-Foot Oakley Classes. the Four Types Mentioned Are Shown Above In That Or

Date: April 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 435

Additional life-boats to come into production will include those of the 70-foot, 48-foot 6-inch Solent, 44-foot steel and 37-foot Oakley classes. The four types mentioned are shown above in that order.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Mr. W. Fortescue Barratt, Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service Life-Boat Fund

Date: May 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 290

Mr. W. Fortescue Barratt, the Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, died suddenly on March 26th last, at the age of 73. He had spent the greater part of his life as a civil servant in the Exchequer and Audit Department of...

Category: Obituaries

Around the Coast

Date: Spring 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 460

FROM AN ARTICLE on Horton and Port Eynon ILB station by Mr C. R. Chatterton published in the Newsletter of Reardon Smith Line. Mr Chatterton is chairman of both the shipping line and the ILB station branch: 'Operating an inshore lifeboat...

Category: Articles

The S.S. Kerrymore

Date: December 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 386

Troon, Ayrshire. At 7.15 on the morning of the 8th of July, 1958, the coastguard told the motor mechanic that a vessel was ashore on some rocks north of Ayr. At 7.45 the life-boat James and Barbara Aitken put out. with the second coxswain in...

The S.S. Stranton

Date: August 1914

Volume: 22

Issue: 253

— The Life-boat Mary Batger was launched shortly after 1 A.M. on the 14th May in response to distress signals, a vessel having stranded, in foggy weather, during the night on the rocks at Huntcliffe. The Life-boat, on arrival, found the s.s....

The New Set

Date: March 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 345

Made by Coastal Radio. The complete installation, before being installed. Left to right: the remote control, or extension; the loud hailer; the receiver; the transmitter; the power pack.

On top of the receiver are the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs