LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News and Views
N EWS P O I N T There coutd only be one topic for Newspoint in this issue - the remarkable service by the Lerwick lifeboat to Green Lily, which led to the award of the first Gold Medal for 16 years to her coxswain and a further five Bronze...
Category: Articles
Book Reviews
Another valuable contribution to life-boat history has been made by Grahame Farr in his latest volume in the Wreck and Rescue Series. This tells the story of the South Devon life-boats (Wreck and Rescue on the Coast of Devon, D. Bradford...
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Notes of the Quarter
One of the most outstanding services in the history of the Life-boat Institution is described in this number of THE LIFE-BOAT. It was carried out by the Holyhead and Moelfre life-boats and led to the award of two gold medals. Coxswain...
Category: Articles
Patricia Hague
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 12th of December, 1952, the coastguard reported that the steam trawler Patricia Hague, of Fleetwood, was in distress two and a half miles north-west-by-west of Point of Ayre, and at 5.15...
A Tow Through a Gale to Aberdeen
AT 4.16 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1953, the coastguard rang up the honorary secretary at Aberdeen.
He passed on a message, which he had had from a hotel at Muchalls, that a fishing boat was burning flares off...
Category: Services
Life-Saving and the United States Coast Guard
MARITIME safety in the United States took a giant step forward on the 28th of January, 1915, when two historic agencies, the Revenue Cutter Service and the Lifesaving Service, were merged into a single organization known as the United States...
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The Appledore Station. Recollections of Sir William Reardon Smith, Bt
Recollections of Sir William Reardon Smith, Bt.Recollections of Sir William Reardon Smith, Bt.
IN the last number of The Lifeboat a history was published of the Appledore Station, which was established in 1825, of its...
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In This Issue
In this issue News All the latest from and about the lifeboat service Letters 2 8 Feature Come fly with me 10 The Lifeboat takes a closer look at the RNLI hovercraft - the latest addition to the fleet Lifeboats in action Including award...
Category: Contents
The Eighth Rnli Lottery Draw In Full Swing: As John Piper Hands One Winning Ticket to Joyce Pearce Who Organises the Lottery at Poole Hq Fred Williams Appeals Office Supervisor Spins the Dru
The eighth RNLI lottery draw in full swing: as John Piper hands one winning ticket to Joyce Pearce, who organises the lottery at Poole HQ, Fred Williams, appeals office supervisor, spins the drum ready for the next lucky dip. Cdr. Ted... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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