LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

30th December.

Flares had been reported, but a search failed to find any vessel in distress.— Rewards, £40 10s. 6d..

FROM PREVIOUS PARTS of this article it will be remembered that, as the fast slipway boat (FSB) is made of steel, her hull is built upside-down until plating is complete. Here (Figs I and 2) the second of the two prototype FSBs building at...

Frank Smith, coxswain/ mechanic of Salcombe lifeboat since 1988. He first joined the crew in 1970 and was emergency mechanic from 1973 to 1981 when he was appointed mechanic.

From 1984 to 1988 he served as second coxswain /... - View image in PDF

APRIL 29TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.

At 5.45 in the evening a message was received from the Bailey Lighthouse that a boat had capsized between Poolbeg Light and Dun Laoghaire harbour. A strong and squally north-north-west wind...

SEPTEMBER 17TH. - NOVEMBER 6TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. The S.S. Teddington, of London, with a valuable cargo on board, had been attacked by German aeroplanes and set on fire. Her crew had been taken off by a naval vessel and the steamer had...

LOSSIEMOUTH, N.B.—On the 27th April, at 4. A.M., the Life-boat Bristol and Clifton put off, and rescued five men from the schooner Cavalier, of Lossiemouth, which had been driven ashore about fifty yards eastward of the old harbour. The wind...

Fowey, Cornwall. At 2.45 on the after- noon of the 30th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a motor yacht was aground on Udder Rock. At 2.55, when the life-boat Deneys Reitz left her moorings, the weather was...

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