Keith Robinson - Conwy Lifeboat Operations Manager and acting Lifeboat Press Officer.
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Photographs are very much part and parcel of THE LIFEBOAT of today - but in Victorian times matters were very different. Barry Cox, the RNLFs Honorary Librarian, on loan from the National Westminster Bank, looks back at the very early...
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Winter at Lowestoft: the 47ft Waveney lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick under snow, January 1979. The photograph was taken by Crew Member Michael Richford.. - View image in PDF
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Facilities at Flint lifeboat station have been improved thanks to a £22,000 legacy left by Dorothy Bashford, a long standing and hard working member of Sutton Coldfield ladies guild.. - View image in PDF
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April 1998 Bob Vowles, St Peter Port lifeboat station mechanic. He also served at the station as assistant mechanic and a crew member.
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The Duke of Ken!. President of the Institution, visited Whitby, Staithes, Redcar and Teesmoulh lifeboat stations on Wednesday July 22. Travelling in a helicopter of the Queen's Flight, he arrived at Whi/bv Abliev where he was received b ... - View image in PDF
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li RNLI coxswains sail through new RYA course Four coxswains have achieved RYA motor cruising qualifications. The course forms part of competencebased training for volunteer and full-time lifeboat crews. The successful crew are coxswain Rod...
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Since the last number of The Lifeboat appeared, the Institution has lost by death several valued friends and workers, among them the distinguished surgeon, Sir William Milligan, M.D., LL.D., J.P.,Chairman of the Manchester, Salford and...
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Four saved .as their boat is destroyedOn the evening of Saturday, 24 February, four sailors were completing their journey from Liverpool to Rhyl, They were approaching Rhyl when they started to " have trouble with their engine. They cut...
Five pence a bucket of water, lOp a bag of soggy pig food. That was the going rate for tormenting poor Edward Childs, a crew member of Port Isaac lifeboat in the stocks during the station's annual Lifeboat Larks. Bob Young (far left),... - View image in PDF
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