Faced with the problem of transporting a 35ft mast ten miles from Venton to the yacht he is building at Oreston, Peter Compton turned the exercise into a fund-raising event. The sponsored marchers, who raised £125 for Plymouth lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 28th May, about 1 A.M., the Castletown Life-boat Commercial Traveller, No. 2, was launched and proceeded to the Austrian barque Junak, of Spalato, which vessel had driven ashore in Castletown Bay, whilst it...
The monumental glass goblet decorated by Miss Honoria Diana Marsh with a picture of the Weston-super-Mare life-boat and illustrated on page 12 of the June number of THE LIFE-BOAT has now been sold by the Institution.
The...
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SEPT. 10TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
While bound for Newcastle the S.S. Magdapur, of Liverpool, a vessel of 8,640 tons, carrying a crew of eighty, was sunk by a U-boat off Aldeburgh. Information reached the lifeboat station...
The schooner Sally Green, of Liverpool, stranded near this life-boat station during a fresh gale from E.S.E. on the 30th April. She would probably have previously sunk and become a total wreck, had not the Sophia life-boat gone off to her,...
The Largest Number of Launches for Fourteen Years.
Nineteen-THIRTY-FOUR, like 1933, will be remembered for its long and brilliant summer. In spite of this it was a year of great life-boat activity. The number of launches...
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(The figures refer to the numbtrt of the Life-boats detailed on pages 610-621.) Aberdovfy, Merioneth, 166. Drogheda, Ireland, 264. Lizard, Cornwall, 128. Robin Hood's Bay, Yorks, 32. Abersoch, Carrarvon, 170 Dm lin, Ireland, 267. ...
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During a visit to the shipyard of Brooke Marine Ltd., Lowestoft, the Duke of Edinburgh inspected two of the R.N.L.I.'s 44-foot steel life-boats which were then Hearing completion. Pictured with the Duke is Mr. Harry L. Dowsett (right),... - View image in PDF
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Coxswains of three lifeboats which were on service for more than 20 hours at the height of the Fastnet storm:. - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 4TH. - FOWEY, CORNWALL.
At 3.10 A.M. a message was received that distress signals were being fired from a vessel off Chapel Point, near Mevagissey. A fresh E.S.E. wind was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The weather...