LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Barry Dock Lifeboat Station Has Very Close Links With Raf Kinloss
Barry Dock lifeboat station has very close links with RAF Kinloss, a friendship which began six years ago when Fl-Lt Tony Cowan and a colleague were testing a homing device they had invented. After a satisfactory completion of the trials, in... - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 21ST. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
Explosions had been heard, but nothing could be found. The life-boat’s engine broke down, but she carried on under sail until taken in tow by a pilot cutter. - Rewards, £6 7s. 6d....
Lord Coke, of Middlesborough
On the morn- ing of the 15th January, a man ran from Dunwich to Southwold to the house of the coxswain of the life-boat of the National Institution, and informed him that a boat was driving down from Dunwich with men in her, and was fast...
John, of Hartlepool
On the 21st December this life-boat put off again, in reply to signals of distress from the brig John, of Hartlepool, which, during a strong wind from S.S.E. and in a heavy sea, had run ashore near Cape Kerr Point. On arriving alongside,...
Skill and Gallantry In North Wales. The Silver Medal Awarded to Porthdinllaen
IT was the 8th of August in Porth- dinllaen. Mr. Jones and his two nephews had gone sailing in their small auxiliary yacht Waterbell; but when they did not return by half-past eight, Mrs. Jones became worried.
At 8.50 p.m....
Category: Services
The Duchess of Kent and Coxswain Sydney Cann
The Duchess of Kent and Coxswain Sydney Cann. - View image in PDF
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A Steam Fishing Launch
CADGWITH, CORNWALL,—On the 1st September September a terrific gale of wind Mew from the S., and the sea was very heavy. The Joseph Armstrong Life-boat put off at 3 P.M., and conducted safely ashore one of the steam fishing-launches belonging...
A Steam Trawler
•—• 17th January.
A steam trawler had stranded and her crew were rescued by the life-saving apparatus while the life-boat played her searchlight on the trawler. The owners, Plymouth Trawlers, Ltd., presented a clock to the...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Work
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS WORK.
Institution is constantly occupied in building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the Coasts...
Category: Articles
St.David's Ladies' Guild Held An Aide Tyme Music Hall at Warpool Court Hotel on February 1 Attended By About 200 People Most of Them In Splendid Period Costume A
St David's ladies' guild held an aide tyme music hall at Warpool Court Hotel on February 1, attended by about 200 people, most of them in splendid period costume. A glittering evening of song, dance and mirth was under the... - View image in PDF
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