LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ann Warren
An excellent ser- vice was performed by the No. 2 Life- boat Civil Service No. 1 on the 18-19th January, resulting in four lives being saved. About 7.30 P.M., whilst a whole gale from W.N.W. was raging, signals of distress were seen from a...
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BOY TRAPPED ON A CLIFF Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 9.5 in the evening of February 22nd, 1947, the police telephoned" that a boy was stranded on the cliff-face north of Aberystwyth and that the National Fire Service had failed to find...
Life-Boat Services of the World: Iceland
WE are very glad to record the founding of another Life-boat Service. It is in Iceland, is a voluntary Service like'our own, and makes the number of National Life-boat Services seventeen, of which number four are maintained by the State,...
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New Inventions
THE FAREHAM LIFE-BOAT.—A novel description of life-boat, to which the above appellation is given by its designer, has been recently patented.
It is the invention of the Rev. E. L. BERTHON, M.A., of Fareham, and is...
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Rescue of Five Boys and a Girl
MR. MICHAEL WILSON, a second officer on leave from the Merchant Navy, who went out as a member of the Tenby life-boat crew, has been awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for the rescue of five boys and a girl on 27th...
Category: Services
Book Reviews
Mr. Angus MacVicar has produced a work which many people associated with the life-boat service must long have wanted to find, a gripping novel written for the young on the work of a life-boat station. This is Life-boat— Green to White...
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The Breadth of the Life-Boat Appeal
By EDGAR H. JOHNSON, F.C.I.S., District Organizing Secretary for the North of England.I HAVE recently addressed on behalf of tie Life-boat Service three very different audiences—the business men of Manchester at a luncheon of the Rotary Club...
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Govenor Maclean, of London
On the 5th September the brig Governor Maclean, of London, was totally wrecked, during a gale of wind, on the Shold Point of the Ower's Sandbank, off Selsey. The life-boat on that station was immediately manned and launched, and took...
Ben Screel
On the 18th January the Aberdeen steam trawler Ben Screel was wrecked and the Institution's life-saving apparatus at Torry helped in the rescue of the crew of ten, while the life-boat stood by.—Rewards, Tony life-saving apparatus,...
The S.S. Taycraig
Penlee, Cornwall.—On the 27th January the s.s. Taycraig was wrecked in Mount's Bay, and her crew of nine were rescued by the Penlee motor lifelifeboat W and S.—Rewards, bronze medal, and an increase in the usual money awards on the...