September was a busy month for Port Talbot lifeboat station - with the naming the station's new D class lifeboat and a Royal visit by RNLI President HRH the Duke of Kent KG taking place in just over a week of each other.. - View image in PDF
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A D V E R T I S M E N T A TRUE STORY ABOUT RELIEF FROM Some years ago, I suffered a slipped disk - a common enough problem but I made the mistake of not resting and letting nature take its course. The end result of this was that the...
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"AND there is no more sea." Heart of my heart 1 All is alike to thee Where thou art.
But storms down here below Are just the same, And God will let thee know That the old name Is working bravely still— Doing its...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 11.5 on the morning of the 21st of August, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that a trawler had engine trouble between no. 2 and no. 3 buoys eight miles off Tenby. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was...
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AFTER A COLLISION At 6.40 p.m. on 28th November, 1964, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the motor vessel Royal Gate had been in collision one mile west of Chequer buoy and was making for the beach in a moderate...
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 10.30 on the night of the llth of April, 1955, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Gava, of Aber- deen, wrhich had a crew of thirteen, had reported that she had gone ashore at Duncansby Head....
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1931.
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32 18 0 «•—• Construction and Repair of Life-boats, Carriages and...
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Safety at sea Having just received my summer copy of THE LIFEBOAT and read the reported speech of John Archer at University College, London, on 'Safety at Sea', I feel that I cannot let it pass without making a few comments on it.<...
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