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Category: Charts
A 13-year-old’s quick thinking and love for his Dad keep them both alive when a February kayaking trip goes wrong
After a good breakfast, Paul Rowlands kissed his wife Julie goodbye and set off on an adventure with his son...
Category: Articles
THE 51-feet Barnett (Stromness) Motor Life-boat is a modification of the 60-feet Barnett Motor Life-boat which was described in The Lifeboat for last February. She is nearly as fast as the larger type (only half a knot less), but she has not...
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After cracking their way through l'/2 inches of ice, members of the Dolphin Sub Aqua Club in Cirencester took part in a sponsored dive at South Cerney Lakes on Boxing Day in 1981. Eight divers took part and as a result £202.50 was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat postcards of other days: (above) Launch of the lifeboat from Margate Pier, 1903 . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Duke of Kent and Mrs Tom Lisle of Cullercoats. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sigurd Golje, one of Sweden's latest rescue cruisers, will be visiting Plymouth in July. In January she was breaking ice in the Bothnian Gulf.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
ON 21st October H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G., President of the Institu- tion, named the new motor life-boat at Blackpool and opened the new boat- house on a site, in the centre of the sea front, provided by the...
Category: Inaugurations
On the 4th May, 1872, the Life-boat Wolverhampton, stationed at the Mumbles, proceeded to the assistance of the ketch Jupiter, of Hamburg, which had gone ashore near the harbour during a strong gale from the W. Some of the crew of the Life...
Bear necessities Mrs Mary Woods of Hamble ladies' guild, has been knitting personalized teddy bears since 1984, and the proceeds of the sale some 466 teddies has provided three Neil Robertson stretchers for Beaumaris, Eastbourne and...
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