LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Change to Ultra High Frequency
EFFICIENT means of communication at sea between life-boats and aircraft have been of growing importance in recent years. Particularly vital is the link be- tween life-boats and helicopters, for the number of services in which life- boats and...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1869
THE Annual Wreck Register has made its appearance in the midst of two calamities which are nearly overpowering iN their vastness and destructiveness. The war which rages with such fearful havoc on the Continent of Europe, and the foundering...
Category: Annual Reports
The Lobster Fishing Vessel Iris Arcain
LOBSTER FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO SAFETY Fenit, Co. Kerry. At 7.15 on the evening of the 3rd June, 1963, the honorary secretary intercepted a radio call from Valentia radio reporting a lobster fishing vessel broken down off Kerryhead. At 7.30...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
WEST HARTLEPOOL.—On the 2nd April, 1881,at about 11 A.M.,on observing the bri- gantine Danube, of Guernsey, which was about to enter the Hartlepool East Harbour, hoist a flag of distress, the West Hartle- pool No. 1 Life-boat Rochdale...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March. 29 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 28 times and rescued 3 lives.
INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF TRAWLER Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 5.15 on the evening of the 1st of January, 1960, the coastguard informed the...
Category: Services
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Bluebird II
Humber, Yorkshire - At 4.8 a.m.
on 16th February, 1970, the coastguard reported that red flares hadbeen sighted in the Haile Sand Fort area. The life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched at 4.21 in a fresh north westerly...
The Ukranian Cargo Ship Kaptain Dzhurashevich
International assistance from Westcountry lifeboat Penlee's relief Arun class A.J.R. and L.G. Uridge is pictured with two casualties, dealt with in a two-week period.
The lifeboat is pictured preparing to take an...
The German Life-Boat Institution. (From the Shipping World, 1st July, 1894.)
WE learn from the Annual Report (for the year 1893-4) of the Deutsche Gesell- schaft znr Eettung Schiffbriichiger, read at the annual meeting of the committee held at Frankfort-on-the-Main on the 29th May, that in the course of the year the...
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Life-Boat In the Lord Mayor's Procession
THE Lord Mayor's Procession this year was a pageant of "Transport Through the Ages." It began with an Arab water carrier and ancient Britons, a man and woman travelling on foot. It ended with British Overseas and Euro- pean...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1883
Jan. 4.—Voted 31. to three fishermen for putting off in a boat and saving at some risk, the crew, consisting of four men, of the Norwegian sciiooner Johanna, which was wrecked on Car Carrig Rock, off the coast of Fifeshire, during a whole...
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