LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
There Was a Constant Stream of Visitors to See Mountbatten of Burma the Prototype Rnli Medina 35 Lifeboat
There was a constant stream of visitors to see Mountbatten of Burma, the prototype RNLI Medina 35 lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Ashley
MARCH 9TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 2.10 P.M. information was received from the naval authorities that a steamer was in need of help to the north of the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A light S.W. wind was blowing, with a slight sea. The motor life...
Yacht in peril
20 March: Lymington and Yarmouth Five people onboard a 12m yacht, Sea Jay IV, called for help when her mast collapsed and went overboard after catastrophic gear failure in high winds off Hurst Castle. Lymington...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Emma
At about 11.30 P.M. on the 9th Decem- ber distress signals were made from the Long Stone Lighthouse, and the Life- boat Forster Fawsett was speedily launched. When about two miles out the Life-boat fell in with a steam yacht belonging to the...
Early This Year the Failsworth Branch of the RNLI Held a Sponsored Knit Which Raised £122 People Were Asked to Knit Nine-Inch Squares to Make Into Blankets Altogeth
Early this year the Failsworth branch of the R.N.L.I.
held a sponsored knit which raised £122. People were asked to knit nine-inch squares to make into blankets.
Altogether 500 squares were knitted... - View image in PDF
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The Admiralty Salvage Craft L.C. 18
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT SALCOMBE DECEMBER 4TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. At 9.15 at night the coastguard at Hope Cove reported a vessel ashore at the lower end of Skerries, three miles to the east of Start Point. Shewas the Admiralty salvage craft...
Night Distress Signals
' For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" UNTIL the year 1873, vast as were the interests at stake, there was no recognised system of night signals to be shown by vessels in distress...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
LOUGH SWILLY BACKS-UP RIGID INFLATABLE Lou (ill Swilly Ireland Division Photographers save fishermen in Gale A rescue carried out by the crew of a rigid inflatable in Gale force conditions on 16 April 1991 has earned its two-man crew awards...
Category: Services
The S.S. Warren Grove (2)
Arbroath, Broughty Ferry, and Montrose, Angus.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 10th of November, 1948, the Arbroath coastguard telephoned the Arbroath life-boat station that the S.S. El Ciervo, of London, had reported that she had picked...
(Right) the Wreck of the English Trader
(Right) The Wreck of the English Trader. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs