LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
During a Two-Day Visit In April to Atlantic College Si Donat's Hrh Prince Charles Now President of the International Council of United World Colleges Went Out In The
During a two-day visit in April to Atlantic College. Si Donat's. HRH Prince Charles, now president of the International Council of United World Colleges, went out in the station's Atlantic 21 ILB. • was shown the controls before... - View image in PDF
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Seaham Station Closes
At about 1500 on Saturday February 24, the 37ft Oakley lifeboat The Will and Fanny Kirby launched down the slip for the last time, circled the harbour and headed out to sea escorted by Sunderland and Hartlepool lifeboats and with the added...
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A Gallant Salcombe Boy
THE Institution has awarded an in- scribed wrist-watch and a framed letter of thanks to twelve-year-old Michael Dornom, of Salcombe, Devon, who saved the life of a seaman in a south- westerly gale on the 17th of September, 1950. The seaman...
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Atlantic College Is Based In St.Donat's Castle and Its Grounds.
Atlantic College Is Based In St Donat's Castle And Its Grounds.. - View image in PDF
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(Below) and Eric (R) and Colin Pavey Father and Son Serve Together In Weymouth
(Below) . . . and Eric (r) and Colin Pavey, father and son, serve together in Weymouth's 54ft Arun lifeboat Tony Vandervell. Ericreceived the long service badge last year and Colin, who joined the crew in 1980, is now assistant... - View image in PDF
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Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1957. 151 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 39 times and rescued 45 lives.
FISHING BOAT TOWED FROM NEAR ROCKS Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 10.50 on the night of the 1st of January, 1957, the Kilkeel coastguard...
Category: Services
Tarka
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.
—At 12.34 on the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1951, the Holyhead coastguard said that a capsized yacht had been sighted about seven miles west-north- west off Porthdinllaen Point. At one...
I invented the lifeboat!
After 186 years of innovation, the RNLI is recognised internationally as a leader in lifeboat design and development. So why does the title ‘lifeboat inventor’ and the achievements of three 18th-century gentlemen still cause controversy and...
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Life-Boat In the Lord Mayor's Show
The Life-boat "Robert and Catherine," late of Appledore, now of the Reserve Fleet at Poplar, in the Lord Mayor's Show of the 9th November, 1928, with Coxswain W. T. Hammond and members of the Walton-on-Naze Crew on... - View image in PDF
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A Long Search on the Aberdeen Coast. Coxswain's Silver Medal and Second-Service Clasp In One Year
AT nine in the evening of 4th Novem- ber, 1937, many people in the village of Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, heard the sound of a ship's siren, and thought that it must come from a ship dangerously close to the shore. A southerly gale was...
Category: Services