LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ex-Belgian Motor Vessel Margurette Marie Louise
OCTOBER 12TH. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL.
At 6.10 in the evening information was received from the coastguard that a small steamer was flashing an S.O.S., and the motor life-boat Duke of York was launched at 6.37. A fresh...
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Cromer and Penlee.
THE new Cromer Motor Life-boat is the third of the Norfolk and Suffolk type to be constructed, the other two being the boats stationed at Walton-on-Naze and Lowestoft. The second of these two boats, the...
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(Below) When the Right Hon the Lord Mayor of London Sir Anthony Jolliffe Cbe
(Below) When The Right Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Anthony Jolliffe, CBE was in Weymouth during the summer, he visited the lifeboat station and was shown all over the 54ft Arun Tony Vandervell. He is seen here II) in the engine room... - View image in PDF
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Accounts of Services by Life-boats (5)
Launches 29. Lives rescued 54.
JUNE 1ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
H.M. Submarine Thetis dived, while on trials in Liverpool Bay about fifteen miles from Llandudno, and did not come to the surface....
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The Duchess of Kent and Second Coxswain Jones
In the foreground (left to right) are Mr. Anthony Eden and the French Ambassador; behind the Duchess, is Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt (See page 163). - View image in PDF
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Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Seafield, Quilty, Co. Clare.—At 7.30 A.M. on the 2nd December, 1933, a curragh, which was returning from the fishing grounds,...
Category: Services
The French Naval Patrol Boat La Bastiase
JUNE 22ND. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
The French naval patrol boat La Bastiase had blown up and sunk in a few minutes, but the sixteen survivors of her crew were rescued by the examination vessel at the Tees. - Rewards, £4...
October
Launches 96. Lives rescued 231.
OCTOBER 2ND. - FRASERBURGH. ABERDEENSHIRE The life-boat was launched twice to the help of the steam trawler Northward, from which she had previously rescued the crew of ten. For details see...
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The Ex-Belgian Defence Vessel Andre Marcel and Plover
OCTOBER 18TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. About 12.20 in the early morning information was received from the naval control at the pier-head that a barrageballoon- drifter and a barge had been driven ashore on the West Shoebury Sands. A S.W...
The Recent Select Committee of the House of Commons on Saving Life at Sea
THIS Committee was appointed on the 2nd of May last to enquire into the existing laws and regulations regarding boats, life-buoys and other life-saving gear required to be carried by British merchant ships, and to report if any amendments...
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