FISHING BOAT ON FIRE Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—At 5.30 in the evening of the 18th of January, 1948, the coastguard reported distress signals and at 5.55 the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched. A strong west-south-west breeze was...
One fundraiser’s epic trek
After 3 years, 9,500 miles and 7 pairs of boots, fundraiser Alex-Ellis Roswell has completed his walk around the coasts of Britain and Ireland – calling in at every lifeboat station along the way. He...
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One of the highlights of the splendid 150th anniversary banquet in the Painted Hall at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, on October 11, 1974, was a piccolo solo by Band Corporal R. O.
Howgill, Royal Marines. The Duke of... - View image in PDF
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A happy interlude when Princess Alexandra visited Stockport in March: arriving at the Town Hall for lunch, the Princess met the local branch crew of lifeboat auxiliaries, some wearing their red stocking hats. She told them that when visiting... - View image in PDF
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Racal-Marine Supplying the RNLI and the marine industry "/ worldwide with modern, reliable marine electronics which include Decca Navigator receivers and Colour and Monochrome radars - all designed to operate under the most adverse...
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Earl Moiintbatten hud strong connections with HMS Mercury, the communications school, in his former role as senior communications officer of the Royal Navy. Here Captain John Stevens II.), chairman of Petersfield branch, receives a cheque... - View image in PDF
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By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
I HOPE that no one who receives this issue of The Life-Boat will fail to read the story of Victor Rojas, well named " The Providence of the Shipwrecked,"...
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WHITBY MEMORIES
I’ve just read the article ‘Happy birthday, Frammy!’ (Lifeboat, summer 2018). I was born at Whitby in the
1920s and one of my first recollections is watching the crew of the lifeboat trying to...
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