Front row (I to r) Mrs Madron, Mrs Richards and Mrs Blewett of Penlee, with the medallists (each row I to r, starting from front): Motor Mechanic Robert Vowles, Coxswain Michael Scales and Second Coxswain Peter Bougourd, St Peter Port;... - View image in PDF
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The Mumbles, August 29, 1986: A bi-ling ceremony was the order of the day when The Mumbles' new 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat was dedicated with prayers in Welsh and English. After Dr Hudson, chairman of the station committee, had...
Category: Inaugurations
On the night of the 18th January signals of distress were seen in the vicinity of the Shering- ham Shoal, and the Life-boat Louisa Heart-well was launched as soon as her crew could be assembled. A very heavy sea was running, and...
IN 1901 the Institution stationed at Queenstown, on the south coast of Ireland, a pulling and sailing life-boat of the Watson type, 43 feet long, 12 feet 6 inches in beam, with a draught of 37f inches. She was named James Stevens No. 20, and...
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DAILY EXPRESS I N T E R N A T O N A 23rd 1989 *? ' -a* Following its highly successful debut ID Plymouth, the Daily Express West of England Boat Show has moved lo the Bristol Exhibition Centre in order (o expand the market for...
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ALL SPICK AND SPAN • I should like to record my appreciation and thanks for THE LIFE-BOAT which reaches me from time to time. It is full of interest and having absorbed the contents I circulate it around my ship.
It is...
Category: Correspondence
At 10.30 A.M.
on the 21st December a large steamer was observed, on her beam ends, trying to work into the bay. A very heavy ground sea was running, and a gale blowing from the south-west. A steam trawler was standing by...
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 8 P.M. on the 2nd January, 1939, the life-boat coxswain saw a flare about three miles south of Ballycotton Light. A moderate W.N.W. breeze was blowing with a heavy swell. The s.s. Innisfallen was in sight and as...
CLARKE CHAPMAN MARINE A U X I L I A R I E S FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station for hauling up the life-boat.
Many other winches of...
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Horrific conditions for two lifeboats Clogher Head and Newcastle 's Mersey class lifeboats were launched in winds of Storm Force 10 to Hurricane Force 12 on 3 February 1994 when an 80ft trawler reported that she was taking water and...