LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Contents
CONTENTS PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 2 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 3 CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE 3 40 YEARS OF SERVICE 8 HUGE EXPANSION IN WORK OF R.N.L.I. 9 FINE JOINT SAVE AT MARGATE 12 HARBOUR RESCUE IN DARKNESS 16...
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Ceremonies
Sennen Cove Mersey class The Four Boys Eighteen years on from the visit of His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent to name the previous Sennen Cove lifeboat, history was repeated on Wednesday 22 April as the town, bedecked in flags and sunshine,...
Category: Inaugurations
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 86. Lives rescued 90., September Meeting.
St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 1st July the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore near Pendeen. She was the Italian steamer Aida Lauro, of...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats In December, 1951, January and February, 1952. 76 Lives Rescued
DURING December, 1951, life-boats went out on service 35 times and rescued 15 lives.
ENGINE BROKEN DOWN Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 3.7 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a woman had...
Category: Services
February
FEBRUARY 2ND. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 9.37 A.M. the Cromer coastguard telephoned that a vessel, about one and a half miles north of Cromer, had reported that she had a man on board dangerously ill. The coastguard also...
Category: Services
Fishing Boats (2)
GOUHDON AND JOHNSHAVBN, KlN- CARDINESHIRE. — A large number of fishing-boats belonging to Gourdon went off to fish on the morning of the 15th April, but had to return on account of the E.S.E. gale which came on...
Index to Advertisers
British Paints Ltd Inside back cover C.A.V. Ltd 471 Clarke, Chapman & Co. Ltd. 482 Coastal Radio Ltd 491 Dodson-Bull Carpet Co. Ltd. 499 Gallaher Ltd Back cover Gardner Engines (Sales) Ltd. 475 Pinchin Johnson & Associates Ltd 465...
Category: Index
The Hoylake Motor Life-Boat
JULY 10TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.
While on her way to a shipyard at Freckleton the Hoylake motor life-boat was delayed by an engine breakdown. She was due off Lytham at three in the afternoon, but did not arrive...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Hubert Petit, of St. Peter Port, Guernsey, who is only the third man to win the Institution's highest award for gallantry, its gold medal, since the war. An account of the service for which he...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat
Storm search THE STATION HONORARY SECRETARY of Courtmacsherry Harbour lifeboat station was informed at 1428 on Saturday December 19, 1981, that a fishing boat had been seen to capsize and sink off Barry's Point. Maroons were fired and at...