LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum at Cardiff Docks
The Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum at Cardiff Docks held a reception on June 7 to welcome to its ranks the 42ft Watson lifeboat Watkin Williams, on station at Moelfre from 1956 to 1977.
Guest of honour, seen here with... - View image in PDF
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A Lovely Life-Size Donkey Hand Made By Robbie Macdonald
A lovely life-size donkey, hand made by Robbie MacDonald who works at the Wick Carpet Store, was raffled to raise funds for Wick lifeboat station. The donkey was put on display in the store to attract interest in the raffle. Eight-year-old... - View image in PDF
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Meet Miss Penlee Lifeboat 1986
Meet Miss Penlee Lifeboat 1986. She is the first in what the local branch hope will be a succession of beauties, all of whom will help promote local RNLI activities. Karen Bennetts was chosen from many contestants at a special fund raising... - View image in PDF
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Tom Lawrence and the Rnli
Tom Lawrence and the RNLI both struck gold in a charity treasure hunt organised by Gillingham Marina at the London boat show this year. Tom guessed the right spot for the hidden hoard and received a handmade pewter statuette and a bottle of... - View image in PDF
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Lion, of Goole
On the 31st De- cember the schooner Lion, of Goole, laden with wheat, was observed making for this harbour. There was a heavy gale of wind blowing from E.N.E. at the time, with snow showers. There being very little water on the bar, signals...
The S.S. Lyonesse
In a dense fog on the afternoon of the 23rd June the Red Star liner Gothland, from Montreal to Rotterdam, with passengers and a cargo of wheat, ran ashore on the Crim Rocks. Information of the casualty was at once transmitted by means of...
Mrs Doris Buchan Showing Her Lifeboat Man Statuette to Her Mother Mrs Ethel Anderson Aged 77 Widow of Superintendent Coxswain Captain William S Anderson Wh
Mr Robertson Buchan pictured in October with the new Superintendent Coxswain, Mr Neil Morris, in the boat house at Spurn Head just after his retirement. RNLI picture. - View image in PDF
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Silver Night
Douglas, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At eight o'clock in the morn- ing of the 5th of September, 1951, the Douglas police reported to the Douglas life-boat station that the local fishing coble Silver Night was on the rocks at Port...
Paris
Fire aboarcLSpanish cargo vesselLifeboats and their crews are often called on to work with the other emergency services and that includes the Fire Service when their work takes them beyond the range of their land-bound...
Success (1)
At 9.20 p.m. on loth May, 1967, a red flare was reported to have been seen half a mile off Pakefield rifle range. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings at 9.30 in a fresh easterly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was...