LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Meirig Glyn Davies Mbe.
August Meirig Glyn Davies MBE. ex Llandudno lifeboat coxswain. Meirig first joined the crew as second coxswain in 1964, a position he held until 1970. He was an ILB crew member between 1966 and 1985, emergency mechanic between 1970 and 1982....
Category: Obituaries
Millennium Forester for the Relief Fleet
Millennium Forester tor the relief fleet This Atlantic 75 lifeboat, funded by members of The Independent Order of Foresters, will relieve similar lifeboats when they need repair or maintenance. 05/07/01. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fishing Smacks Useful and Mannin
MCH. 11TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.
During the afternoon a strong N.W. gale sprang up, with a heavy sea. Anxiety was felt for the local fishing smacks Useful and Mannin, which were at sea, and the motor life-boat Manchester...
In March the Crew of the Salcombe Life-Boat Visited London As Guests of the Baltic Exchange Who Presented the Boat In 1962
In March the crew of the Salcombe life-boat, The Baltic Exchange, visited London as guests of the Baltic Exchange who presented the boat in 1962.
They were accompanied by their coxswain, Mr. Hubert Distin, and honorary... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) 1949 Was the Year In Which Jim Bunting First Became a Member of Donaghadee Lifeboat Crew He Has Been Coxswain Since 1968
(Below) 1949 was the year in which Jim Bunting first became a member ofDonaghadee lifeboat crew. He has been coxswain since 1968.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
When the Cross Channel Hovercraft Princess Margaret
When the cross channel hovercraft Princess Margaret collided with the harbour arm at Dover in bad weather on the afternoon of March 30,1985, the relief Arun class lifeboat, A. J. R. and L. G.
Uridge, on temporary duty at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Selsey Crew As Santa Claus
On the gangway to the Boathouse, with presents for the men of the Owers Lightship from the people of Bognor Regis and Selsey. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rosemary IV
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 8.10 in the evening of the 30th of May, 1952, the Needles coastguard telephoned that two yachts, taking part in the Cowes to Cherbourg race, had gone aground on Shingles Bank near Elbow Buoy, but they had...
No ordinary Jo
She made a comedy career from pouring scorn, but when it comes to the sea and those who rescue people from it, Jo Brand is positively gushing
It’s Jo Brand’s turn to jump in. She grabs her...
Category: Articles
Birds Eye Foods
Backbone of the FishingTrade.
This was one that didn't get away. One of a thousand million.
A thousand million of the reasons why every day and night men put out to sea in all weathers to earn their...
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