LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 2 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 3 NEW COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT MEMBERS 5 LADIES' LIFE-BOAT GUILD 5 R.N.L.I. DELEGATION IN UNITED STATES 6 NEW U.S. STEEL LIFE-BOAT 9 LETTER TO THE EDITOR II AN...
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Fifty Medals for Gallantry (11)
On the 2nd December, 1939, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat rescued the crew of ten of the steam trawler Resolvo, of Grimsby, on Admiralty Service.
COXSWAIN CHARLES A. JOHNSON was awarded a second clasp to his...
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Classified
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A long trawl
Second Coxswain Martyn Hagan was just sitting down to his tea on 26 June when a call came through from Humber Coastguard. ‘We have a little job for you,’ the Coastguard said. The ‘little’ job involved rescuing the 18m Hartlepool-registered...
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An Aeroplane (22)
JUNE 20TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 7.48 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea about four miles to the north-east. A strong north-east breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The No. 1 motor...
Value of Barometrical Indication
ON the occasion of the hurricane which swept the island of St. Kilda, in the Hebrides, on the 3rd Oct. last, and inflicted such distressing loss on its poor inhabitants, the following were the indications of a Kew Verified Barometer, on...
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Bountiful
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
Travelscope.
Give yourself something to look forward to after the Christmas and New Year celebrations are over and get 2007 off to a great start, with this fabulous 30-day Caribbean Winter Sunshine Cruise departing directly from...
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JUNE 26TH. - TOBERMORY, HEBRIDES. At nine in the evening a local doctor asked for the services of the life-boat to take a woman who was seriously ill with appendicitis to Oban for an operation. As no other boat would be available until the...
BUSY YEAR FOR COASTGUARDS
A record number of 2,878 people were rescued as a result of action by H.M.
Coastguards in the 12 months ending 31st March, 1969. This was 379 more than in the previous 12 months. Coastguards took part in 2,444 rescue...
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