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Brian Jeffrey, a crew member at the Mumbles, shows a line-throwing rocket gun to members of the 2nd Swansea Valley (Clydach) Scouts, who, with a variety of events, raised £1,007 for the station. photograph by courtesy of the Western Mail.
Brian Jeffrey, a crew member at The Mumbles, shows a line-throwing rocket gun to members of the 2nd Swansea Valley (Clydach) Scouts, who, with a variety of events, raised £1,007 for the station. photograph by courtesy of the Western... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Macduff Grampian: Douglas Currie Prepares for Her Naming Ceremony Photograph By Courtesy of W J Heinrich
Macduff, Grampian: Douglas Currie prepares for her naming ceremony. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of W. J. Heinrich.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Spanish Liquid Gas Carrier Butaseis
Liquid gas carrier fire A SPANISH LIQUID gas carrier Butaseis, lying at anchor three quarters of a mile off Brixham breakwater with a fire in her crew's quarters, was reported to the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 0749...
Royal Penarth
HRH The Duke of York made a brief visit to Penarth lifeboat station in March.
Having been introduced to civic dignitaries, Raymond Cory CBE, vice-president of the RNLI presented station officials and introduced HRH to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Boat
Drifting, offshore wind THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Macduff lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1346 on Thursday, July 15, that a small boat had suffered engine failure some two miles north west of the lifeboat station and...
Port Talbot (Aberavon Beach)
Port Talbot (Aberavon Beach) crew and station officials are photographed with their new D class inflatable lifeboat on Saturday March 24, the day she was officially handed over. The lifeboat was the gift of Port Talbot Round Table 335 and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your shout
My husband and I were on Newgale Beach, Pembrokeshire, on Tuesday 17 July.
We climbed to the top of the shingle bank and saw two surfers in trouble. Along with others, we stood watching the absolutely heroic...
Category: Articles
Four Gallant Services
AT 11.30 on the morning of the 28th August, 1919, during a strong southerly gale with a very heavy sea and thick rain, the Bembridge Life-boat was launched to the help of an American steamer, the s.s. Wakvlla, of Los Angeles, which had...
Category: Services
Return the Favour
A painting of the Regina Mary lifeboat at Looe, donated by kind-hearted artist Merv Beaver, has raised over £500 for the RNLI.
The oil painting was raffled at the end of June during Looe lifeboat station's Seafront... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremonies
SEVEN new life-boats were named dur- ing 1953. Four of these boats are stationed on the English coast, at Bridlington, Ilfracombe, Flamborough and Peel; two are in Scotland, at Campbeltown and St. Abbs; and one is in Wales, at Pwllheli. An...
Category: Inaugurations