LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cornish Appeal
The Cornish Life-boat Appeal got off to a good start on 30th May, 1972, when it was launched by the Bishop of Truro on behalf of the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall at County Hall, Truro.
It was announced at the meeting that...
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The S.S. Fort Medine
FEBRUARY 20TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 6.57 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had been mined one and a quarter miles S.E. of Mumbles Head. The motor life-boat Edward Prince of Wales was launched at 7.15...
Yachtsmen and the Life-Boat Service
SINCE the end of the war in 1945 the number of calls for life-boat assistance emanating from yachtsmen—a term used as conveniently indicating people who go to sea for pleasure rather than profit—has steadily increased. Life-boat calls to...
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Light Motor Life-Boats.
By Commander Edward D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., Chijf Inipsctor of Life-boats.
UNTIL 1921 Motor Life-boats could only | be placed at Stations where it was possible to build a Launching Slipway, or where the boat could...
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