LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Poole, Dorset.—At 11.40 on the night of the 29th of April, 1956, the police rang up to say that a sailing dinghy with two young men aboard was over- due from a trip within the harbour.

The life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was...

On the night of the 1st of May, the smack Wonder was swamped, off Teignmouth Harbour. The cries of her crew, 2 in number, were heard from the shore, but nothing could be seen from it, the night being very dark. The Teignmouth life-boat was...

£50 million modernisation programme The Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, announced a £50 million boat building programme to modernise the lifeboat fleet. Speaking at the Institution's annual general meeting, he said,...

Moelfre, Anglesey. At 12.45 early on the morning of the 23rd October, 1961, Anglesey radio station informed the honorary secretary that the cargo on board the motor vessel Eemshorn of Delfzijl had shifted and that the vessel was listing...

A few minutes after 5 on the morning of the 24th August, a telephone message from the Gunfleet Lighthouse reported that a vessel was on the sands. The crew were called, and with great prompt- ness the motor Life-boat James Stevens No. 14...

Berwick- on- Tweed, Northumberland, and Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—On the morning of the llth of February, 1956, the motor vessel Tonny, of Dordrecht, appeared to be aground off Berwick.

A little later she was seen to move...

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...

Dover, Kent.—At 6.40 in the morning of the 26th of October, 1949, the Eastern Arm signal station telephoned that a vessel was dragging her anchors at East Cliff, and at 7 o'clock the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings. A whole...