LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Coxswain John Connell of Amble, Northumberland. He joined the lifeboat crew in April 1953, became bowman in February 1962, second coxswain in February 1967 and coxswain in August 1972.

He was awarded the thanks of the RNLI,... - View image in PDF

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The new experimental Hatch-boat built by Wm. Osborne Ltd., of Littlehampton for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution who specify Sestrel compasses.

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Whitby, Yorkshire— At 4.10 in the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1949, the coastguard telephoned a message re- ceived by wireless that the motor vessel Arbroath, of Dundee, had been in col- lision with the S.S. Aina Maria Nur- minen, of...

THROUGH the kindness of the organ- izers of the Engineering and Marine Exhibition (formerly the Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition), held at Olympia, from 16th Septem- ber to 2nd October of this year, the Institution was given...

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Arklow, Co. Wicklow— On the 28th November, 1938, the trawler Roaming, of Arklow, with a crew of three, lost her rudder while fishing in Courtown Bay. She made for Arklow with the flood tide, using trawl boards for steering, and sending up...

YACHT TOWED TO SAFETY AT 4.45 p.m. on 20th November, 1971, information was received that the yacht Solstice was firing red flares in a position four miles west of Les Hanois light, Guernsey, C.I. Fifteen minutes later the St. Peter Port life...