Another safety first for the RNLI: The 52ft Arun which will soon be going on station at Fishguard is the first lifeboat to be fitted with a radar scanner which has been made watertight. During her righting trials at Cowes on May 5, the Arun... - View image in PDF
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THE last article on the Installation of the Motor in Life-boats appeared in The Life-boat Journal, VOL XX., No. 225, published in August, 1907, and it will it is thought be of interest to our readers if we review the progress made since that...
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Dunbar, East Lothian. At 7 p.m. on 23rd February, 1966, a newspaper office telephoned the honorary secretary to ask if the Dunbar life-boat Margaret had been launched to the wireless transmitting station Radio Scotland, as they had been...
Notes of the Quarter from page III Elmy put out to the help of a fishing boat. The fishing boat's crew were taken aboard the lifeboat, but as she was returning to harbour the lifeboat capsized with the loss of the whole lifeboat crew and...
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Swanage, Dorset.—At about 2.50 P.M.
on the 17th July, 1938, the St.
Albans Head coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser two or three miles S.E.
of the Head was making signals of distress...
FEBRUARY 23RD. - WALMER, KENT. A strong west-south-west gale was blowing and the sea was very rough. In the early morning a ship was seen to be in difficulties. She tried to move to a safe anchorage and grounded on the Goodwin Fork Sands. At...
SBLSEY, SUSSEX.—At 7.35 A.M. on the 19th March the Coastguard reported that a vessel was on the Mixen Reef, flying signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Lucy Newbon were at once assembled and the boat launched, but just after she...
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LTNMOUTH AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.— On the 19th March the Lizzie Morton, of St. Ives, encountered a heavy squall, when off Lynmouth, which carried away her foremast, bowsprit, and bulwarks; in a helpless state she subsequently drifted before a...
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 1.50 P.M.
on the 21st October, 1937, during a lift in a dense fog, a vessel was seen to run hard aground on the beach near the life-boat house. The wind was light and the sea slight. The motor...
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 10.45 on the night of the 14th of July, 1952, infor- mation was received from the JBallan- trae coastguard that signals had been reported from a small boat near Lendalfoot, and the life-boat crew were assembled. The...