LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OTHER IRB LAUNCHES In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 197 .and 201 the following launches on service were made during the months December, 1969, January and February, 1970,...

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AMONGST the many appliances which con- tribute to the safe navigation of a ship, none is of more importance than the small instrument termed " a log," by which the distance run can be approximately ascer- tained from day to day, or...

HELICOPTER LOWERS DOCTORS TO LIFE-BOAT The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 8.3 on the evening of the 16th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two girls were in difficulties in Three Cliffs Bay.

There...

It was a cold and blustery August bank holiday when the annual life-boat flag day was held in Rhyl this year. A further handicap was the lateness of the bank holiday - fewer people were in the town. The outlook for fund raising was poor,...

Nine seamen rescued from coaster stranded on sandbank in heavy swellA service by Cramer's Tyne class lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed II on 21 November 1990 has been recognised in a letter of thanks to the crew from the Chairman of the...

AT 8 p.m. on Sunday, iyth November, 1963, the honorary secretary of the Mumbles life-boat station, Captain C.

E. Mock, received an anticipatory mes- sage from the Mumbles coastguard.

This stated that the...