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NOVEMBER 27TH. - FOWEY, CORNWALL,.

At 7.30 at night the S.S. Valborg, of Copenhagen, which was off the harbour, signalled on her siren for a pilot. A fresh south-southwest gale was blowing, with a rough...

Major H. E. Burton, of the Royal Engineers, who died in December, 1944, in his eightieth year, will always be remembered as one of the outstanding figures in the Life-boat Service in the difficult days when motor-power was replacing oars and...

Montrose, Angus, and Anstruther, Fifeshlre.—On the afternoon of the 9th of February, 1953, a wireless message reached the Montrose life-boat station from the fishing boat Angus Rose, which had a crew of two, that she had lost her rudder, but...

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Patrick Power of Dunmore East.

He first joined the Dunmore East crew in 1925, became bowman in 1928 and second coxswain in 1934. He was appointed coxswain in January,...

Never has there been such a generous response by the public to the appeal of life-boat flag days as in 1940. The number of branches which held flag days was 771, and 475 of them raised larger sums than ever before. The number of people who...

Blackpool, Lancashire.—At about 9.50 P.M. on the 30th July, 1938, when the wind was freshening and the sea getting up, a cabin cruiser was seen to the south of the Central Pier. As she was approaching a lee shore, she was kept under...

A ship was ob- served in distress on the Long Bank, during a southerly gale, on the 25th November.

The St. Patrick life-boat went off to her, and found she was abandoned. Afterwards she floated off the sands, but capsized...