LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Torbay, South Devon. At 8.40 p.m.

on ist August, 1965, the police at Paignton told the second coxswain of the life-boat that a boy had fallen over the cliff at Three Beaches. The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped...

OF the many problems which confront the technical officers of the Institution few have caused so much careful thought and discussion as the design of an efficient life-belt.

Until the year 1904 the question was

Baltimore, Co. Cork - At 4 p.m. on 9th November, 1966, news was received that a member of the crew of the Spanish trawler Madre-de-Cristo had been badly injured, and it was requested that the life-boat meet the trawler at about 7 o'clock...

On the 19th of February, the schooners March, of Liverpool, and Richard, of Ban- gor, were stranded in Moelfre Bay, during a heavy gale of wind from the N.E. Both vessels at once showed signals of distress, which were promptly responded to...

Helmsman Alan Clarke of Hunstanton - a bar to the Bronze medal. - View image in PDF

At about 9 P.M. on the 4th March the Coxswain of the Life-boat observed a vessel in the vicinity of the " Sow and Pigs" rocks, and about half-an-hour later she made signals indicating that something was wrong. The assembly signal...

Captain G. R. Cousins, D.S.C., R.N., who has returned to the Institution from the Navy, has been appointed to the Southern District. During the war he helped to build the Lyness base in Scapa Flow and then took command of H.M.S....

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