LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part VI: Trials
EARLY NOVEMBER saw the first launch from Fairey's yard at East Cowes of the RNLI's prototype fast slipway boat City of London. It was the start of the exact, and exacting, programme of builder's trials through which every...
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Testing Out the Mtv Basic Voice Trainer: (I to R) Coxswain Derek Scott Motor Mechanic Alan Jones and Crew Member George Parsons from the Mumbles Photograph By
Testing out the MTV basic voice trainer: (I. to r.) Coxswain Derek Scott, Motor Mechanic Alan Jones and Crew Member George Parsons from The Mumbles. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of South Wales Evening Post.. - View image in PDF
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AUG. 23RD. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE.
It had been reported that an over-turned boat could be seen with someone clinging to it, but it was found to be a tree trunk. - Rewards, £5 11s..
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APRIL 7TH. - FOWEY, CORNWALL.
Two R.A.F. men had been reported stranded on Chough Rock, near Looe, but the life-boat was recalled as the men had been saved.- Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..
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APRIL 22ND. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
Seven men had been washed overboard from a destroyer at night in a whole gale, but they could not be found. - Rewards : Thurso, £13 18s. ; Longhope, £14...
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FEBRUARY 29TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. Red rockets, thought to have come from a vessel which had been in collision, had been reported, but no vessel in need of help could be found. - Rewards, £21 7s. 6d.
Gallant and Humane Conduct of Swedes and Norse-Men
DURING the autumn of the year 1852, a year that will long be remembered as one of the most fatal on record to the shipping of this country) the unprecedented number of 1115 wrecks having occurred along the shores and within the seas of the...
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Barry Dock Lifeboat Station Has Very Close Links With Raf Kinloss
Barry Dock lifeboat station has very close links with RAF Kinloss, a friendship which began six years ago when Fl-Lt Tony Cowan and a colleague were testing a homing device they had invented. After a satisfactory completion of the trials, in... - View image in PDF
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An Aeroplane (46)
NOVEMBER 24TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards, £14 5s..
A Vessel (36)
DECEMBER 6TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. A vessel was reported to need help off Skerryvore Lighthouse, but no definite position could be given ; visibility was nil, and the life-boat abandoned the search. A second message was received that...