LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - At 11.40 a.m. on 24th April, 1966, a police inspector informed the honorary secretary that a car or van had gone over the cliffs and into the sea, close to the Aberdaron look-out hut. As no other suitable...
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Angle, Pembrokeshire - At 2.53 p.m.
on 9th July, 1967, it was reported that a soldier had been reported washed out to sea between Linney Head and Trains Lake sands. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds...
Heritage Publications
144 pages Many of the most stirring tales of 'the men who never turn back'— the crews of the R.N.L.I.—arc included from the very beginning of the service to today. So, too, are the stories of rescue and heroics by others including...
Category: Advertisement
Contents
RNLI News What's happening in and around the Institution Membership News 182 185 Feedback on the promotional pack aimed at recruiting new RNLI members Where There's A Will, There's A Way... 186 The value of legacies to the...
Category: Contents
Not Just Boots
The recent advertising campaign '£5 buys him a pair of boots' has highlighted the costs of kitting out a lifeboatman.
The protective clothing, boots, bump cap, lifejacket and lifeline cost £167. It's...
Category: Drawings
Royal Wish Fulfilled
Royal wish fulfilled When Her Royal Highness Princess Anne named Southendon- Sea's new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat last May, she confided in broadcaster Raymond Baxter, chairman of the RNLI's public relations committee,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Stuart Roberts Helmsman of Porthcawl Inshore Lifeboat,
Stuart Roberts helmsman of Porthcawl inshore lifeboat, first joined the crew in July 1980.
Stuart, who is a local Police officer, was awarded the Institution's Silver Medal for o u t s t a n d i n g bravery when the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Recinia
OCTOBER 8TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
At 3.12 A.M. a telephone call came from the coastguard at Walney that the coast watcher at Ravenglass had reported a vessel in distress and firing rockets, and the motor life-boat N.T. was...
Winifred and Onward
NOVEMBER 19TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. A southerly gale was blowing, the sea was rough, and all the local fishing boats had put back to harbour except two, the motor fishing boats Winifred, of Wexford, and Onward, of Rosslare. Each...
A Small Motor Boat Flora MacDonald
MAY 10TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. At eight in the evening of the 9th a man went out in his small motor boat Flora MacDonald, with his father-in-law. At 11.50 his wife reported that the boat had not returned.
At 12.45 next...