LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
30 Months of War.
In the first thirty months of war Life-boats have rescued 4636 lives. They have rescued more lives in thirty months of war than in the last thirteen yearu of peace. They are rescuing nearly two lives for every life rescued in the last trar,...
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Inverurie
At 11.30 A.M. on the 15th November a tele- phone message was received stating that a barque was in a dangerous position to the south of Donaghadee, and in need of assistance. The Motor Life-boat William and Laura was promptly dispatched to...
The New Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
COMMANDER DRURY has been succeeded as chief inspector of life-boats by Lieut.-Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., inspector of life-boats for the Eastern district.
Commander Vaux was educated at the Rojral Naval Colleges of...
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Mr. Edmund Gwenn As the Coxswain
Mr Edmund Gwenn As The Coxswain. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Boat
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 25th of Septem- ber, 1955, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a sailing boat had cap- sized off Buley Beach between. Pol- kerris and Par. Four people were clinging to her bottom. At 3.25...
Fishing Boats
.—On the evening -of the llth January, considerable anxiety was felt for the safety of fourteen fishing boats belonging to Poole, the south- westerly wind having suddenly increased to a whole gale whilst they were out at sea. Many members...
Tarifa
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 5.3 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard reported that the yacht Tarifa was in diffi- culties some three miles south of Portland Bill. The life-boat William and Clara Ryland put out at...
Moored Alongside Poole Quay on Passage to Plymouth: (Left to Right) City of Bristol (70-003) Monsun (Poland) and Rotary Service (50-001)
Moored alongside Poole Quay, on passage to Plymouth: (left to right) City of Bristol (70-003), Monsun (Poland) and Rotary Service (50-001). - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of J. P. Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Helen
FISHING BOAT OUT OF PETROL Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire.—At 8.0 in the evening of January 19th, 1947, the Lytham police reported that the fishing boat Helen, of Liverpool, with a crew of three aboard, was in need of help. The wind from the...
Amazone
Valentla, Co. Kerry.—About 10.45 in the morning of the 2nd of May, 1952, the trawler Amazone, of Camaret, with a crew of nine, left the harbour, but broke down and was in danger of being blown on the rocks at the harbour entrance. The sea...