DECEMBER 17TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 9.12 in the morning a message was received from the naval authorities that a vessel was on the barrage boom.
A southerly gale was blowing and the sea was broken and confused. At...
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 12.40 early on the morning of the 26th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the motor vessel Durham that the yacht Helma II, which had a crew of two,...
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat. Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate transportation to the...
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DECEMBER 13TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. An SOS had been received from a motor vessel on fire off Corsewall Point, but the fire was got under control, the injured members of the crew were taken off by a motor launch, and tugs arrived to...
DECEMBER 16TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
A naval motor boat had foundered while going ashore from minesweeper H.M.S. Tenby in a gale, but the life-boat, which made a long search, found nothing. Of the eight men in the boat, seven...
Even more on the Lagos Pilot Boat I have been following the letters on the Lagos pilot boat with interest. This is partly because the Queen was originally propelled by water jets and the photograph with Mr Powell's letter in the Autumn... - View image in PDF
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THE EVER INCREASING SPEED of Scientific and technological advance over recent years has naturally made itself felt in the design, construction and equipment of lifeboats throughout the world. So rapid have these changes been in the second...
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The Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., aboard the Bembridge, Isle of Wight life-boat, with Coxswain Peter Smith and Mr. Arthur B. Weaver, B.E.M., honorary secretary, and (below) the Duke of Kent with the Bembridge crew of the 48-foot 6... - View image in PDF
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Margate, Kent. At 2.22 on the after- noon of the 9th October, 1961, thecoastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two men in a rowing boat were being blown out to sea a mile and a half off Epple Bay and were waving a towel attached to...