LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AUGUST 10TH. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. A small motor fishing boat had been reported in difficulties, but she was found coming in under her own power.- Rewards, £3 16s..

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Fowey, Cornwall - At 11.5 p.m. on 5th May, 1967, a report was received of a red flare two to three miles south of Gorran Haven. The life-boat Deneys Reitz slipped her moorings at 11.38 in a fresh south south westerly wind and a moderate sea....

Beaumaris lifeboat was called out to a mayday on 25 May.

A 7m boat had a rope caught around her propeller. Without power, she was drifting fast – when the lifeboat arrived on scene she was just 3m away from the rocks off...

brigantine Adelaide, of Fowey, with a cargo of coal for Par, was anchored in ParBayonthe nightof the 12thFebruary a S.S.W. gale sprang up. The vessel dragged her anchors, losing one and finally bringing up in shallow water, close to rocks,...

Fowey, Cornwall.—At 7.33 on the morning of the 16th of March, 1956, the Polruan coastguard rang up to say that the motorship Eminent, of Am- sterdam, had wirelessed that she had broken down about one mile south- east of Fowey and...

By Captain ANTHONY S. THOMSON, C.B., Elder Brother of Trinity House, Commander B.N.B.

Reprinted from the " Journal of the Royal United Service Institution," by permission.

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" STEADILY onwards," may be said to be the policy of the Institution, in regard to the installation of motive power in its Fleet of Life- boats.

A year ago we gave a description of the various boats which were...