Today's lifeboatmen Michael Bowden, full-time coxswain of the Appledore lifeboat, first joined the station in 1971 as a crew member of the all-weather lifeboat.
Michael became an inshore lifeboat crew member in 1973,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
BROUGHTY FERRY.—A telegram having been received stating that two vessels appeared to be embayed at the mouth of the Tay and were in danger of being driven on the banks, on which a terrific sea was breaking, during a very strong gale from the...
The Viscount Burnham, G.C.M.G., C.H., T.D., and the Right Hon. the Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K.G., P.C.
BY the death of the Viscount Burnham, G.C.M.G., C.H., T.D., on 20th July last, and the death of the Right...
Category: Obituaries
By KATHLEEN WILLMOTT (aged 13J), of S. John Baptist Girls' School, Frome, Somerset.
What are the Qualities of the Life-boatman which make him an Example of Good Citizenship ? OUR small island home is the central jewel...
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Miss Clare Francis, MBE, guest speaker at the presentation of awards meeting, ended her speech by making a surprise presentation of her own. On behalf of the whole crew of ADC Accutrac, the yacht which she skippered in the Whitbread... - View image in PDF
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DrrAJis of the late disastrous hurricane at Colj cutta show that the destruction of property was even greater than at first supposed, although, happily, fhe loss of life appears to have i e , j not so great as at first reported. Letters from...
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A VERY interesting International Con- gress on life-saving took place at St.
Malo, Brittany, between the 4th and 12th August. It had been organised by La Soci6te des Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons, in celebration of their...
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FOR THOSE AT SEA IN STORMY WEATHER.
" The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly; But yet the Lord who dwelleth on high is mightier." Psalm sciiL-v. 5,
THIS night, O Lord, we lift our...
Category: Songs
The Llandudno inshore rescue boat returning from the service on 3rd June, 1967 when she saved two boys from the Little Orme.. - View image in PDF
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. . . and from Falmoiith: During Her Majesty's visit on August 6, Prince Andrew took the helm (below) when he and Prince Edward went out with Coxswain West in the station boarding boat.
Earlier Coxswain West, one of the... - View image in PDF
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