St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 2.31 in the morning on the 29th of January, 1950, Niton radio station wirelessed that the S.S. Edirne, of Istanbul (a vessel of 3,653 tons, with a crew of fifty, bound for Denmark with oil cake) had radioed that...
Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C..R.N., who was Chief Inspector of Lite-boats when war was declared and was called back at once to the Navy, served for four and a half years until in the spring of 1944 he was released at the urgent request of the...
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Former coxswain of Walton-on-the-Naze lifeboat, Mr Jonas Oxley, who has helped to save hundreds of lives at sea, is putting brush to canvas to record the work of the lifeboatmen. Early this year he completed a painting of Walton's first... - View image in PDF
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The Two Belgian Motor Life-Boats Built From The Plans of the Watson Cabin Type. - View image in PDF
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Above: The Queen with (left) the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Commander F. H. R. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., and the Chief Inspector of Life-boats, Lieut.-Commander W. L. G. Dutton, R.D., R.N.R., aboard The Royal British Jubilee during the naming... - View image in PDF
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Front Cover Lifeboat Port Isaac crew members put their station's new D class inflatable lifeboat. Spirit of the PCS RE II.
through her paces. See page five for further details.
Photograph © Neil... - View image in PDF
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THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Richard H. Hayes, of Poole, Dorset. He has been coxswain for the past seven years..
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Calshot (above): Every five months or so 40.001, Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde, is slipped on a Sunday mid-day tide to be cleaned below the waterline. Crew and helpers rally round and she comes out at about 0900 and is back again... - View image in PDF
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The lead presenter of the BBC’s long-running Coast series shares his admiration for our supporters and lifesavers – especially the volunteers who rescued him …
You’ve come face to...
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PILOT WANTED Ezmouth, Devon.—About 8.15 on the night of the 9th of January, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning flares and signalling be- tween two and three miles off Sidmouth, and the motor life-boat Catherine Harriet...