LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Vessel (1)
JANUARY 25TH. - CLOGHER HEAD, CO.
LOUTH. A motor vessel was reported to be in distress fourteen miles south-east of the life-boat station, but the help of the lifeboat was not needed. - Rewards, £5 3s..
Emma and a Motor Boat
JUNE 2ND. - DOVER, KENT. The lifeboat rescued twenty-three men from the Swedish steamer Emma and fifteen. British soldiers from a disabled motor boat.
For details see “ Evacuation of Men of the British Expeditionary Force...
NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT MUSEUM
The R.N.L.I's charter doe* not make provision Tor the preservation uf old lifeboats and equipment, and the National Lifeboat Museum Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charily for this...
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Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: November 1995 Mrs Maggie May (Finnic) Howells MBE, a founder member of Tenby ladies' lifeboat guild. In 1939 she was chairman of the guild and later president from 1975 to 1994. Mrs...
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Roscairbre
BRONZE MEDAL AWARDED On I4th July, 1964, the Howth lifeboat rescued three men from the trawler Roscairbre in a southerly gale and rough seas. For this service, an account of which appears on page 196, the award of the bronze medal was made...
BBC Wales Are Filming a New Drama Based
BBC Wales are filming a new drama based on the novel Ennals Point by Alun Richards.
The novel is about life in a fictitious lifeboat village and the six part television series is being filmed at The Mumbles. Philip Madoc... - View image in PDF
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Card Collecting: Some Notes on Charitable People. By a New Life-Boat Worker
I HAVE learnt several things about my fellow men and women which have interested me very much since, some months ago, I undertook always to have one of the Prince of Wales's Life-boat Collecting Cards with me wherever I went. I think...
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An Aeroplane (22)
MAY 2 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea two miles N.E. of Broadstairs, but the lifeboat could find nothing, and later it was learned that the crew had been rescued.- Rewards, £5 11s. 6d..
Rhyl: PRESTATYN WOMEN DELIVER SUPPORT
Women from Prestatyn Inner Wheel visited Rhyl Lifeboat Station to deliver a considerable donation to their lifeboat appeal, after former Coxswain Peter Robinson gave them a talk about the station’s history.
The women enjoyed a...
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