LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Malcolm Macdonald
After spending his early working years at sea as a deck apprentice Malcolm Macdonald came home to Stornoway in 1967 when he was appointed mechanic of the lifeboat. In 1979 he took over as coxswain/mechanic, a post which had earlier been held... - View image in PDF
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— On the night of the 7th April the life-boat coxswain brought from St. Martin's, in his own boat, a girl who was suffering from appendicitis, and her doctor.
It was then decided that the girl must be sent to the...
Aglae
CAISTER AND WINTERTON, NORFOLK.— At 10 P.M. on the 1st June, a vessel was seen to get on the Middle Cross Sand and make signals of distress. The Caister No. 1 Life-boat Govent Garden was at once launched and proceeded to the...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ARDROSSAN, N.B.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has provided a new Life-boat for this place, the crew having lost confidence in the old boat, consequent on her having upset when in tow. The new one is 34 feet long, 8£ feet wide, and...
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Lugo
Yacht towed to safety from breaking seas on lee shore A difficult service in darkness, gale force winds and heavy breaking seas just yards from a sea wall has earned Coxswain James Kinnon of Ramsey lifeboat station the Thanks of the...
Marnhull
At 6 A.M. on the 10th February signals of distress were observed on the North end of the Barnard Sand. The wind at the time was blowing a strong breeze from the S,W. and the sea was rough. The No. 2 Life-boat, St. Michael's, Paddington,...
The S.S. Fermain
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 29th of December, 1952, the master of the S.S. Fermain, of Guernsey, which had fourteen persons on board, wirelessed that his ship had struck a rock and had been badly holed about...
Dungeness, Kent- East Division
The simple, almost stark lines of the the boathouse for the carriage-launched Mersey at Dungeness echo the emptiness of the low-lying shingle peninsula on which it stands. To the south the nuclear power station forms an unmistakable man-made... - View image in PDF
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Too Many Cooks! Portpatrick
Too many cooks! Portpatrick lifeboat station holds a lifeboat week every year and last year, with the help of the newly formed ladies' guild, raised £6,400. The photograph shows the coxswain and crew preparing the barbecue which was... - View image in PDF
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Contents
Notes of the Quarter 3 Lifeboat Services 5 XT JX Lifeboat Open Days 1984,Poole 12 487 Forest Row Lifeboat Choir 12 The naming at Cowes of RNLB Sir Max Aitken II 13 Chairman- a Safe— art 1- caPsizing and righting, by James Paffett, RCNC...
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