LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Above) Presenting the Duchess of Kent With a Posy
(Above) Presenting the Duchess of Kent with a posy before the Wells naming ceremony was a big event for Storm Force member Melissa Walker, daughter of Coxswain/ Mechanic Graham Walker.. - View image in PDF
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The Crew of the Hampshire Rose Board The
The crew of The Hampshire Rose board the lifeboat while the shore helpers assemble for the launch. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Robert Watsham. - View image in PDF
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Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 6. Mr. G. L. Thomson, J.P., Honorary Secretary of the Stromness Branch
THE most northerly of all the Institution's Life-boat Stations is at Stromness on the west coast of Mainland or Pomona, the largest of the f i f t y - s i x i s l a n d s which form the Orkneys. There was a still more northerly Station...
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The Life-Boat Service at the Festival of Britain
THE Life-boat Service is represented at the Festival of Britain by its latest life-boat, the Sir Godfrey Baring, a 46-feet 9-in hes Watson cabin life-boat built for the station at the Humber, to which she will go when the Festival closes,...
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Contents
Contents Volume XLIII Number 447 Price 15p Chairman: COMMANDER F. R. H. SWANN, CBE, RNVR Director and Secretary: CAPTAIN NIGEL D1XON, RN THE YEAR OF THE LIFEBOAT 1824-1974 Lives Saved: 98,500 Notes of the Quarter by the Editor .. .. .. .. .....
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Wanderlust
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At six o'clock on the morning of the 14th of September, 1959, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen six miles east-north- east of Woody Bay. At 6.14 the life- boat...
"Woods of Which a Life-Boat Is Made": A Correction
IN this article, which appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat, it was stated that greenheart, a very hard wood of which a little is used in building life- boats, was an African wood. This was not correct. It comes from...
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Right: Hfth the Duke of Kent Visits Conwy Lifeboat Station
Right: HftH The Duke of Kent visits Conwy lifeboat station and is pictured with some of the crew members, together with station honorary secretary Keith Robinson (far right). - View image in PDF
© Karl Roberts. - View image in PDF
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Tynemouth's New Severn Class Lifeboat Spirit of Northumberland
Tynemouth's new Severn class lifeboat Spirit of Northumberland was named by HRH The Duke of Kent at the Royal Quays Marina, North Shields, in May this year.
The lifeboat was funded by the Tynemouth Lifeboat Appeal and... - View image in PDF
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H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent Presents a Silver Medal
The recipient is Coxswain SAMUEL CUNNINGHAM, of Portrush (see page 52). - View image in PDF
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