LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services In Brief
The following is a complete list of services or attempted services by inshore rescue boats during the months of April, May and June, 1964: Date 1964 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 15 April 20 April 24 April 27 April 30 May i May 2 May 4 May...
Category: Services
Shore Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1881
Jan. 6,1881.—Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution, and a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, to Mr. HENRY SMITH, pilot, of Glou- cester, and 11. to his mate, for saving the owner, and two persons on board the yacht Foam, which was in...
Category: Articles
General Practitioner on the Lifeboat By O C Parry- Jones Honorary Medical Adviser Moelfre
LITTLE DID I THINK some 20 years ago when I started in general practice that I should be in active service for more than a decade as a lifeboat doctor or HMA (honorary medical adviser), as we are called. Years later I asked the now retired...
Category: Articles
The Central Appeals Committee
THE C.A.C. is hoping to arrange a crossword puzzle for inclusion in the Journal. At the time of going to press plans had not been finalised but further details will be given in the July issue.
Many people gave up weekend...
Category: Committee
Marjory Gaw
PARACHUTE FLARES SHOW YACHT IN DANGER Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 9.5 on the evening of the 2nd September, 1962, the honorary secretary received messages from the coast life-saving service and the civic guards that rockets and flares had...
The Italian Vessel S.S. Concordia (1)
DURING the south-westerly gales of extraordinary violence, which burst over the south-west and south of England in the second week of July, and lasted for two or three days, eight Life-boats along the south coast were launched, and three of...
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Category: Advertisement
Notices of Books. The Mercantile Marine Magazine
AMONGST the numerous valuable periodical publications, magazines, and reviews, with which the literature of this country abounds, is it not strange that, until but recently, there should have been none exclusively representing and devoted to...
Category: Articles
A Wellington Bomber
APRIL 13TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
At 10.50 in the morning a Wellington bomber crashed in the sea a mile northwest of the life-boat station. The southerly breeze was light, the sea calm. As the coxswain and crew of the...
The Lighthouse
THREE months at sea, and one on shore; Three months at sea—yet not afloat j Around our home the breakers roar, Yet own we neither ship nor boat.
Rock-based, amid the swirl of foam, The lighthouse stands—it is our...
Category: Poetry