On her slipway at The Mumbles is 47ft Watson Pentland (Civil Service No 31) which in the television series becomes Ennal's Point lifeboat Samuel Grail.
photograph by courtesy of "South Wales Evening... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
COOPERATIVE BANK Unsecured Personal Loans Rates available at a typical APR of 9.9% Borrow any amount between £1,000 - E15.000 Instant telephone decision service - 7 days a week NO ARRANGEMENT FEES Funds transferred direct to your own...
Category: Advertisement
IN the last number of this Journal we described an ingenious American invention for night-signalling, which we conceive would be especially valuable in cases of stranding, or other disaster to trading vessels. "We have now to notice...
Category: Articles
DRIFTING LIFE-BOAT St. Ives, Cornwall. At 10.35 a-m- °n ist February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat had been seen about 400 yards off Gur- nards Head. There was a strong breeze from the...
We had hoped to publish in the current number of the Life-~boat Journal a synopsis of the Wreck Register foi the preceding year—or rather for the first six-months of that period;—but vre Lave been tinable to obtain in time from the...
Category: Articles
Right: 11-year-old Suzanne Shepherd, the daughter of a Royal British Legion member, presenting a bouquet to the Queen.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the 8th March a steamer was observed ashore on the Hasborough Sand at 3 P.M. during a fresh S.W. wind. The Husband Life-boat went to her assistance, and found that she was the s.s. Napier, of Shields, coal laden. The Life-boat remained by...
Main picture other page - The volunteers moor up and grab a quick break before moving out again. Inset - Ian Canavan and Aguinaldo Namburete take a D class up the flooded river. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The largest tricycle in the world, fixed securely to the Arndale Centre floor, was used by Poole Round Table to raise money for a replacement lifeboat under 10 metres for the local lifeboat station.
Poole lifeboat crew,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Another valuable contribution to life-boat history has been made by Grahame Farr in his latest volume in the Wreck and Rescue Series. This tells the story of the South Devon life-boats (Wreck and Rescue on the Coast of Devon, D. Bradford...
Category: Articles