LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Rescue Team
1. Coxswain/mechanic - Mersey class lifeboat The coxswain is responsible for all decisions om the lifeboat is at sea and for the safety of the boat and its crew. At this station the coxswain is also the full-time mechani has to make sure... - View image in PDF
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Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN YVES SYLVESTRE HERVE, of the Criccieth life-boat Robert Lindsay. Born in Brittany, Coxswain Herve, who served in the French merchant navy from 1935 to 1941 and then in the Free French commandos, joined the Criccieth life-boat in...
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Princess of Wales
The Stockport Sun- day Schools Life-boat was called out on the 3rd July, on the barque Princess of Wales, of Glasgow, going ashore about a mile south-east of Dundalk Lighthouse, and was enabled to bring the vessel's crew of 16 men safely...
The 1972-1973 National Project of the Co-Operative Women's Guild Is An Appeal to Raise £6000 for the Purchase of Two Ilbs for the RNLI Last Year Members of the G
The 1972-1973 national project of the Co-operative Women's Guild is an appeal to raise £6,000 for the purchase of two ILBs for the R.N.L.I. Last year members of the guild visited the London headquarters of the R.N.L.I. and are here... - View image in PDF
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Wilfred Perrin of Skegness.
He was appointed coxswain in October 1947, and since then Skegness life-boats have been launched on service 47 times and have rescued 22...
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On March 20 In a Strong West-South-Westerly Breeze Newhaven's 44Ft Waveney Lifeboat Louis Marches! of Round Table Went to the Help of the Barge Dunord Which
On March 20 in a strong west-south-westerly breeze, Newhaven's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Louis Marches! of Round Table went to the help of the barge Dunord which, on passage from Lowestoft to Poole, was aground one mile west ofBeachy Head... - View image in PDF
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Intrepid, of Liverpool
A vessel was observed off Whitehaven on the night of the 20th August, with signals of distress flying, while a very strong wind was blowing from the W.S.W., and the sea was running high. The Life-boat Elizabeth was imme- diately launched to...
Albion, of Beaumaris
The schooner Albion, of Bcaumaris, while at anchor about a mile and a half from the Life-boat station, on the 12th February, during a strong S.S.W. wind, hoisted a signal of disti'ess. The Life-boat Eleanor proceeded to her, and, at the...
Paladino, of Messina
This Life-boat was also the means of saving the crew of 14 men of the brig Paladino, of Messina, when she -went ashore in Swansea Bay during a strong gale from the W.S.W. on the 27th November..
The Duke of Edinburgh Took a Keen Interest In the Experimental I.R.B. Which Has Been Constructed By the Boys, When He and the Queen Paid a Visit to Atlantic College, Glamorgan, on 25th June.
The Duke of Edinburgh took a keen interest in the experimental I.R.B., which has been constructed by the boys, when he and the Queen paid a visit to Atlantic College, Glamorgan, on 25th June. He is seen here with Commander D.G.Wicksteed, R.N... - View image in PDF
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