LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Life-Boat Diary
The Duchess of Kent in North Wales Aberystwyth and Barmouth Stations Visited THE Duchess of Kent made a two-day tour through North Wales on the llth and 12th of July. Her tour was comprehensive; she visited places like the National Library...
Category: Articles
Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Launches 16 Lives rescued 11 INISHBOFIN, CO. GALWAY. During the morning of the 4th of January, 1943, the Valentia radio received a message that the Barrister, of Liverpool, was ashore off Skird Rocks. Later the position was given Inishshark...
Category: Services
Jane Ellen, of Aberystwith
At mid- night on the 20th January, during a heavy gale from E.S.E., the schooner Jane Ellen, of Aberystwith, was observed dragging her anchors, in a very dangerous position off this place. The Royal Berkshire life-boat was immediately manned...
The Ocean Youth Club's 70Ft Training Vessel Francis Drake
Helping hand for youngsters The Ocean Youth Club's 70ft training vessel Francis Drake is pictured being given a helping hand by Ramsey's Oakley James Ball Ritchie on 8 August, 1988.
The yacht's auxiliary engine... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Dorothy Parsons' Father, John Southerden (Left) Stands Guard Over the Rye Lifeboat After the Disaster - See Letter Above.
Mrs Dorothy Parsons' father, John Southerden (left) stands guard over the Rye lifeboat after the disaster - see letter above.. - View image in PDF
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The Life-Boat Service 100 Years Ago. Fourth Annual Report
IT is now four years since the establishment of this Institution ; and the Committee, in making their Fourth Annual Report, beg leave to state, that they have continued to pursue the measures which they have deemed best calculated to effect...
Category: Annual Reports
The Rosslare Harbour Naming Ceremony
Left to right: The Bishop of Ferns, Mrs. Sean O'Kelly, the Mayor of Wexford, Commodore the Earl Howe, C.B.E., V.R.D., P.C., R.N.V.R., deputy chairman of the Institution (See page 40!). - View image in PDF
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Rescue By Nautical School Boys
FOR rescuing two men and a small girl from a capsized dinghy off Black More Point, a framed letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., has been awarded to Raymond Court and...
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(Above Left) Torbay's New Crew Facilities
(Above left) Torbay's new crew facilities in the south eastern corner of Brixham harbour. The station's Arun lies to a mooring in front of the building.. - View image in PDF
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Fort Moultre
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 6.42 on the morning of the 25th of De- cember, 1952, the coastguard telephonedthat a message had been received from the tanker Fort Moultre, of New York, which was anchored in Swansea Bay, that she had a...