LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ark of Connemara
CREW TAKEN OFF MOTOR BOAT IN GALE Howth, Co. Dublin. At 7.40 on the evening of the 26th August, 1962, the garda informed the honorary secretary that flares had been seen at first in the direction of Rockabill and later from a boat at Lough...
Feature: the Survival Centre
A crew member urges the Severn class Lifeboat towards her destination, a burning tanker apparently on the horizon. Just metres away, the crew of an Atlantic 75 lifeboat works hard to right their capsized vessel It sounds like a scene...
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Richard Walsh, the coxswain of the Rosslare Harbour life-boat. Richard Walsh has been coxswain since December 1946.
From August 1941 to December 1946 he was second coxswain, and before...
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Salvenio, of North Shields
JULY 23RD. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 4.10 in the afternoon the Tynemouth coastguard telephoned that a motor boat was in difficulties several miles to the north-east of the Tyne piers. F i v e minutes later the...
A Pirate Invasion of the Trent Navigation Inn Was Part of the Pub's Lifeboat Day Which Raised £100 Here Donclarke the Event's Organiser Hands Over a Cheque for the Takings to Mr C G Pole Ca
A pirate invasion of the Trent Navigation Inn was part of the pub's lifeboat day which raised £100. Here, DonClarke, the event's organiser, hands over a cheque for the takings to Mr C. G. Pole Carew, High Sheriff of Nottingham... - View image in PDF
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Raylight, of Greenock
Campbeltown, Argyllshire - At 10.32 p.m. on nth December, 1966, it was noted that a vessel was sounding her siren continuously near the entrance to the Campbeltown loch. The life-boat City of Glasgow II left her moorings at 10.52 in a fresh...
Ramsgate's Coat of Arms
THE town of Ramsgate has decided, in celebration of the jubilee of its incor- poration as a borough, to apply for the grant of supports to the borough arms. After consulting with Sir Gerald Wollaston, M.V.O., Garter King of Arms, she has...
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Below: Artist's Impression of the New Barrow Boathouse
Below: Artist's impression of the new Barrow boathouse, opened in July by HRH The Duke of Kent.. - View image in PDF
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During the Visit of a German Lifeboat to the Isles of Scilly Last May Colonel Sir John Carew Pole Bt Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall Presented Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge
During the visit of a German lifeboat to the Isles of Scilly last May, Colonel Sir John Carew Pole, Bt, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall, presented Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge with the BEM awarded to him in the New Year Honours List... - View image in PDF
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Strachan, of Peterhead. He has been coxswain since 1922, and during those fourteen years the Peterhead life- boat has rescued 104 lives. Coxswain Strachan was awarded the silver medal of the...
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