LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nor' Wester, of Boston U.S
On the 20th April, the ship Nor" Wester, of Boston, U.S., with a crew of 24 men, bound from Cardiff to Monte Video with a cargo of coals, was passing this place in tow of a powerful steam-tug, when the wind sud- denly shifting from S.S...
Contents
PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN .. .. 258 NOTES OF THE QUARTER .. .. .. .. 259 SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL .. .. .. .. 261 WINNING JOURNALIST 262 FOCUS ON SUNDERLAND .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 263 MEDAL FOR SECOND COXSWAIN .. .. .. .. .. .. 267 AWARD FOR...
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A Bar Tip
• As last year, I would like once again to pay for my 1973 copies of THE LIFEBOAT.
I look forward to the Journal. I find it very interesting and informative.
After I have finished with it, I put it on the...
Category: Correspondence
People and Places
TV stars draw record breaking lottery Joan Hooley (Josie from EastEnders) and George Sewell (Matt Drayton in The Detectives) drew the winning tickets for the most successful Lifeboat Lottery ever on 26 January. The 92nd draw beat all...
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Listings
Lifeboat and hovercraft launches remainder of March-June 2006 Listings ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):May 5,12 ON-1262(17-33):Jun 13 D-536:Apr 20,May 7(x2),Jun 13 ABERDOVEY B-758:Apr 21,May 1,Jun 10,11(x2),13 ABERSOCH B-790:Apr 13,20,27,28, May...
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The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854
IN various parts of the Life-boat Journal, we have expressed a strong conviction of the utter inadequacy of all existing means for affording succour to shipwrecked persons around our coasts. We have mourned over it as a national discredit,...
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Aberdovey, Merioneth. At 6.50 p.m.
on 7th August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two people were stranded on an isolated rock below the cliffs at Berth. At 6.55 the inshore rescue boat launched in a...
Lifeboats of the World: Part I—European Organisations By Eric Middleton
IT is FITTING that an article on the lifeboats of the world should begin by acknowledging the fact that Great Britain was the cradle of the lifeboat and that from the early efforts of the 'National Institution for the Preservation of...
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