LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
CADABRA: Sandhursts' floating showroom
Throughout 1973 the motor yacht Cadabra toured the coasts of Great Britain on a sales promotion for Sandhurst Marketing Ltd, a firm of stationers.
At the end of the tour in January, Captain Nigel Dixon, RN, Director of the...
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Fishermen and Fishing-Boats
Although this Journal is chiefly intended to circulate information respecting life-boats and other means of saving life from ship- wreck, we cannot overlook the fact that in many, if not in most cases, it is to fisher- men we must look to...
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Help!
See next page for places in the South of England where help is wanted in forming new Branches.
Where Help is Wanted.
THE Institution is very anxious to form Branches in the following places in the...
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Bookshelf
some recent publications reviewed HEAVY WEATHER SAILING by K. Adlard Coles, revised by Peter Bruce published by Adlard Coles Nautical at £30 ISBN 07136 3431 6 'Heavy Weather Sailing' has long been the standard textbook on the...
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George Lamey (Third from R) Holder of the Bronze Medal Who Retired As Coxswain In 1955 After 26 Years Service at Clovelly Was Presented With a Statuette for Collecti
George Lamey (third from r.), holder of the bronze medal, who retired as coxswain in 1955 after 26 years service at Clovelly, was presented with a statuette for collecting £3,000 in four years with a collecting box at the lookout.... - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 29TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 5.30 in the afternoon information was received at the life-boat station that five men, who had been collecting cattle from the islands to the south of Barra, were then on Pabbay Island and could...
The Steamers Oxshott, Deerwood, Gallois, Taara, Aberhill and Paddy Hendly
GOLD AND SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON AUGUST 6TH. - 7TH. - CROMER, GT. YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. On the night of the 5th of August,, 1941, a convoy of...
Gleaner
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 12th November the schooner Gleaner, of Preston, was driven on shore in Castletown Bay, in an easterly gale. The Lifeboat Commercial Traveller No. 2 was speedily launched, and succeeded in rescuing her crew of...
President Garfield
ABERSOCH, CARNARVONSHIRE.—Signals of distress having been shown by the schooner President Garfield, of Amlwch, coal laden from Liverpool for Abersoch, which was lying at anchor in St. Tudwall's Beads during a moderate gale figom the...
Kiki and Catamaran Acarus
Two calls in gale NEWHAVEN LIFEBOAT, the 47' Watson Kathleen Mary, was called out twice on Thursday, November 4, 1976. During the early evening HM Coastguard had been watching a yacht coming from the west, close inshore. As she turned in...