LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
History laid to rest
The Lifeboat Support Centre at RNLI Headquarters houses Engineering and Supply, Finance and the Sales company but, during building work in 2003, an 18th-century Baptist burial ground was unearthed here. Analysis of the excavated remains has...
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Town & Country
DRIVEWAYS THAT CREATE A LASTING IMPRESSION Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, of traditional styles, including Cobble, Slate and Stone, plus its beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a unique...
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Miss Clare Francis Mbe Guest Speaker at the Presentation of Awards Meeting Ended Her Speech By Making a Surprise Presentation of Her Own on Behalf of the Who
Miss Clare Francis, MBE, guest speaker at the presentation of awards meeting, ended her speech by making a surprise presentation of her own. On behalf of the whole crew of ADC Accutrac, the yacht which she skippered in the Whitbread... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mary Lloyd and Elizabeth
FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.—While a strong gale was blowing from N. accompanied by a heavy sea, thick weather, rain and hail, on the evening of the llth April, the three-masted schooner Mary Lloyd, of Carnarvon, laden with slates, from...
13 Lives Rescued at Ramsey.
The bronze medal foi gallantry has been awarded to Coxswain John Cornish, of Ramsey, Isle of Man, and its thanks on vellum to the acting motor mechanic, for rescuing thirteen lives from an Aberdeen trawler which had gone ashore in a Tery...
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A Small Boat (2)
At 6.50 P.M. on the 30th April a message was received from the Coastguard at Shoreham that a small boat had cap- sized about half a mile off the Towers, West Worthing. The Motor Life-boat Samuel Oakes was launched at 7.12...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To JOHN E. MORRIS, on his retirement, after serving for 17J years as coxswain and 3 moaths as bowman of the Barmouth lifeboat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.
To JOHN C. SNELL, on his retirement,...
Category: Awards
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Boy on cliffs AT 2133 ON SUNDAY, June 27, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station that a boy had fallen 200 feet down the cliffs and into the sea at North Stack but had swum back to the cliffs and had...
Fishing Cobles (3)
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— On the morning of the 20th February it was reported that practically the whole of the local fishing fleet was out, and that the sea was making very fast and was breaking across the harbour entrance. The...