LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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s o m e r e c e n t p u b l i c a t i o n s r e v i e w e d SHIPWRECK! by Ian Dear Published by Batsford at £17.95 ISBN 0713459530 Ian Dear has collected an interesting, if chilling, collection of photographs to illustrate his theme of...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
IN THE EARLY HOURS of November 30, 1973, the motor vessel Burtonia sank off the east coast of England with the loss of four lives. Three men were picked up by another motor vessel and one by Aldeburgh lifeboat. The Aldeburgh and Lowestoft...
Category: Articles
Island Aruns: Naming Ceremonies at Port St.Mary Isle of Man July 21 and Yarmouth Isle of Wight July 24
A LIFEBOAT NAMING CEREMONY is always a happy occasion for a station, its supporters, and, indeed, the whole local community, but that at Port St Mary, Isle of Man, had a particularly pleasurable aspect. For while the RNLI has many lifeboats...
Category: Inaugurations
The Loss Of A Comrade
The loss of a comrade It is almost 10 years since RNLI Coxswain Hewitt Clark and Coastguard Winchman Billy Deacon attended the Green Lily, struggling in ferocious conditions off the Shetland Isles. Only one of these two brave men was to...
Category: Articles
Books
BooKS A lifeboating selection to inspire, thrill and ponder Asboville by Danny Rhodes Asboville may not sound like it has any relevance to the RnLi, however a lifeboat crew member plays a key part in this surprising...
Category: Articles
Book Review
" THE LIFE-BOAT AND ITS STORY." By Noel T. Methley. Sidgwick and Jack- son. 7s. 6d.
In our May issue we briefly noted the publication of this book, which reached us too late for review. As the Life- boat Journal...
Category: Articles
Third Gold Medal Since the War
AT 3.15 on the afternoon of 5th February, 1963, Niton radio informed St. Peter Port radio in Guernsey that the Norwegian motor vessel Johan Collett needed help immediately. Her position was fourteen miles west-north- west of Les Hanois...
Category: Services
Books Reviews
• As gracious as its subject, Salt- Water Palaces by Maldwin Drummond (Debrett, £8.95) recalls the halcyon days of the large private yacht and, in the words of the publishers: '. . . guides the reader gently below, down the carved...
Category: Articles
Letters
Immediate thanks On Wednesday December 10, 1980, our diving boat Kermit, named after a famous frog, decided to roll over on her back in an attempt to swim like her namesake. She found, however, that although in this position floating was...
Category: Correspondence
Letters
Augustine Courtauld Can we please hear a bit more about 'the well known explorer' Augustine Courtauld, after whom the new Poole lifeboat has been named?—N. L.
STEWART, LIEUT.-CDR., RN, at RAF Staff College,...
Category: Correspondence