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THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHING LIFEBOATS
26 January–22 April
Poole Museum, Dorset
Calm Before the Storm: The Art of Photographing Lifeboats celebrates the past and present of the RNLI. Glass plate images of...
Category: Articles
Ex-Coxswain John W. Bushell, of Blyth
Coxswain John William Bushell, of Blyth, who died on 24th September, at the age of 61, was for nearly twenty- four years the coxswain of the Blyth life-boat, and before that had been its second coxswain for two years. He won, by his...
Category: Obituaries
Bountiful
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
Day Dawn, of Peterhead (1)
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — On the 7th December, 1937, at about 2.30 P.M., information was received from the coastguard that the motor fishing boat Day Dawn, of Peterhead, with a crew of three, had been sighted by the lightkeeper at...
Centenary Publications and Souvenirs
" Britain's Life-boats -. The Story of a Century of Heroic Service." By Major A. J. DAWSON, with an Introduction by H.K.H. the PRINCE OF WALES, K.G., President of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, and a Fore- word by...
Category: Advertisement
Weymouth Ladies' Guild
Weymouth ladies' guild raised £700 for branch funds at its annual wine and cheese party in the Springfield Room at Devenish Brewery on April I . The Mayor of Weymouth and Portland, Mrs Joyce Litschi, presented an oil painting of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Blue Funnel Vessel Ajax
At 5.46 p.m. on 5th March, 1967, news was received that the Holyhead pilot boat had broken down and required assistance.
The life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 6...
Ex-Coxswain Richard Chadwick, of Flamborough
Ex-Coxswain Richard Chadwick, of Flamborough, who died on 28th Febru- ary, just before his seventieth birthday, served as an officer of the Flamborough life-boats for thirty-one years. From 1900 to 1911 he was second coxswain of the No. 2...
Category: Obituaries
Peter Jones, Chairman of the Csma, Draws a Ticket.
Peter Jones, Chairman of the CSMA, draws a ticket.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Englishman, of Workington & Schooner Lewis Jane, of Drogheda
On the 23rd De- cember the brig Englishman, of Working- ton, and the schooner Louisa Jane, of Drogheda, while running for the river Boyne, became unmanageable through a sudden change of the wind, and drove on the South Bull in a heavy sea....