LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Postage Stamps
THE General Post Office is issuing a set of postage stamps to mark the ninth international life-boat conference being held in Edinburgh in June 1963. The stamps will be in the denominations of 2|d., 4d. and Is. 6d. and will be on sale...
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SICK MAN TAKEN OFF SURVEY VESSEL Cromer, Norfolk. At 9.45 on the evening of the 2nd November, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that H.M.S. Scott, one of the survey vessels of the Royal Navy, had requested a doctor and ambulance to...
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal.—At 9.30 on the night of the 2nd of February, 1956, a doctor at Bunbeg reported that the priest at Tory Island was ill and asked if the life-boat would take him to the mainland for hospital treatment. The island had...
A Hunter Aircraft (3)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...
Amos
Aberdeen.—At 7.41 on the evening of the 25th of December, 1957, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that there was a very sick man on board the coaster Amos, of Copenhagen. Her position was then 75 miles south-east of Aberdeen. The...
The Dudgeon Lightvessel
Sheringham, and Cromer, Norfolk.
At 9.50 on the morning of the 31st of May, 1958, the Cromer coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a re- quest had been made by the Trinity House Superintendent at Great Yar...
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Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth 255 Lifeboat Services .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 257 _ _ i VT T T Revision of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea: V OlUrFie -/V-Ll V an introduction to an introduction, by...
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PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 78 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 79 CENTRAL APPEALS COMMITTEE. . .. .. .. .. .. .. 82 GALLANTRY AMONG THE ROCKS . . . . ...
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Ex-Coxswain Henry Nicholas
The following retired coxswains have died: Ex-Coxswain Henry Nicholas served continuously in life-boats from 1919 until his retirement in March, 1967, the last 1 years as coxswain of the Sennen Cove, Cornwall, lifeboat.
Mr...
Category: Obituaries
Ex-Coxswain John Matthews
The following retired coxswains have died: Ex-Coxswain Henry Nicholas served continuously in life-boats from 1919 until his retirement in March, 1967, the last 1 years as coxswain of the Sennen Cove, Cornwall, lifeboat.
Mr...
Category: Obituaries