LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Cobles Heather and Venture
The local motor fish- ing cobles Heather and Venture put out on the morning of the 19th February to haul crab-pots. The Heather returned very shortly afterwards, and as a strong N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea, the pulling and...
Another View of the "Green Ranger"
Another View of the "Green Ranger". - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
People and Places
Model effort Gordon Davies, of Waunwen, Swansea, a distant relation of William Gammon, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat Edward Prince of Wales, lost on service 40 years ago, has recently completed a labour of love in his memory, a 12th scale...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles (2)
— Soon after daybreak on the 1st May some of the fishing cobles went off to their lobster and crab-pots. About 6 A.M. the N.N.E. wind increased to a moderate gale and the sea became very heavy.
A good look-out was kept, and...
Life-Boat Calendar for 1943.
The life-boat calendar for 1943 will shortly be ready. It will have on it a reproduction in colours of a painting of Coxswain Edward Drake Parker, of Margate, who won the D.S.M. for helping to bring off over 600 men of the B.E.F. from the...
Category: Articles
New Brooch Bars for Medallists
BROOCH bars for winners of the medals awarded by the Institution have recently been introduced and are now issued to all medallists. The bars are covered with the Institution's medal ribbon, which is light blue in colour, and are 1| in....
Category: Medals
D Class In Search for Cliff Fall Victim
D class in search for cliff fall Victim Borth-West Division Borth 's Dclass inflatable is pictured under the cliffs about half a mile from the station on 10 June 1989, co-ordinating the helicopter evacuation of a young girl who had... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Task of the Vikings
W ith one of the world's loveliest, albeit most rugged, coastlines - some 2,650km in length and encompassing waters ranging in potential dan yr from the relatively benign Skagerrak. via the remoteness of the cod banks off the Lofotens....
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services (1)
Stronsay Westray Peebles-shire Peebles Perthshire Atholl and District Auchterarder Blairgowrie Crieff Perth Strathmore Renfrewshire Gourock - Branch Gourock - Guild Greenock Inverkip Lochwinnoch Paisley - Branch Paisley - Guild Port Glasgow...
Category: Services
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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Category: Medals