MR. JAMES PENTREATH, a shore helper at the Penlee life-boat station, was killed in an accident when the Penlee life-boat was being rehoused on the 30th Decem- ber, 1961. Mr. R. W. Blewett, another helper, was injured at the same...
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Ysgol Glan-y-Mor school children are so active in their support for the RNLI that they received an award too. - View image in PDF
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Four Signed Maritime Fine Art Prints • BY MICHAEL JAMES WHITEH AND THE CHANNEL FLEET The might of the Channel Fleet sailing for battle against the French.
THE FRIGATES VICTORY NEWS Homeward bound, the swift and strong...
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ISLE OF MAN.
XX. and XXI.—DOUGLAS.
No. 1. The Manchester and Salford Sunday Schools, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, 10 oars.
No. 2. The John Turner- Turner, 35 feet long, 9 feet...
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The theme for decoration at Blackburn's Fish Market Bi-Centenary in May was the RNLI, and collections, amounting to £62, were given to the lifeboat service.
Photograph by courtesy ot North Western... - View image in PDF
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He was once best known as a TV funnyman, but these days Griff Rhys Jones is serious about theatre, documentaries and indulging in his passion for sailing
Griff is enjoying treading the boards. After a spate of television...
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Selflessness
We sometimes hear inspiring news reports of people acting on instinct, trying to save a fellow human being with no thought for their own safety. At sea, there is a tradition...
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Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 5.20 on the evening of the 21st of Octo- ber, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to ask if the life-boat would take seven men off a drilling tower which had been «rected off Hinkley Point in Bridg-...
THURSDAY, 14th June, 1906.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
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On the 14th April, during 'a very severe gale of wind, a brig was seen to part from her anchors in the Mumbles Roads, and to bum signals of distress. The Wolverhampton life-boat was promptly launched, and remained by the vessel until,...