LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The portait on the cover is of Cox- swain John Murt of Padstow. He was appointed coxswain of the Padstow no. 1 life-boat in 1944 and two years later was awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for a service to the s.s. Kedah...

CROMER, NORFOLK On the 6th August, 1941, the Cromer life-boats rescued sixteen of the crew of the S.S. Oxshott, thirty-one of the crew of the S.S. Gallois, nineteen of the crew of the S.S. Deerwood, twenty-two of the crew of the S.S. Paddy...

Walmer, and Ramsgate, Kent. — At 6.42 in the morning of the 30th of March, 1952, the Deal coastguard tele- phoned to the Walmer life-boat station a wireless message from the S.S.

Jankiki, of Panama, that she was aground...

At 9 A.M. on the 29th December, when the Life-boat Queensbury was moored in the Harbour after returning from the s.s. Gallier at 4 A.M. that morning, a naval officer requested to be placed on board the Admiralty Mine-sweeper No. 48. As a...

Time of Launching.

Jan. 1. 6.10p.m.

6. 10. 0p.m.

„ 7. 4.45 a.m.

„ 8. 12 noon.

„ 9. 1.55 a.m.

„ 9. 5. 0 a.m.<...

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THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Henry West of Sheringham. He was appointed assistant motor mech- anic in 1940, became second coxswain in 1947 and coxswain in 1951. Cox- swain West was awarded the silver medal for gallantry for the...

Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 1.42 on theafternoon of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Colebrook had the sailing boat Dolores in tow and her master had asked to be relieved of the tow off Ramsey...