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The Site of the Rescue, the Causeway Leading to Fort Clonque
The site of the rescue, the causeway leading to Fort Clonque. - View image in PDF
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Gomer Press (The Men of the Mumbles Head)
THE MEN OF THE MUMBLES HEAD Carl Smith A Pictorial Story of The Mumbles Life-boat from 1832 to the present day.
Available in: Case-bound £3.50 Limp-cover £1.95 ISBN 85088 384 9 8±" x 7± 86 pages, 56...
Category: Advertisement
The Store-Yard of the National Life-Boat Institution
THE annexed engraving represents the Store-yard of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. It comprises sheds for stowage of Life-boats and their carriages, a rigging loft and ample store-rooms, an office for the storekeeper in charge, and two...
Category: Articles
The Duchess of Kent Names the Padstow Life-Boat
THE DUCHESS OF KENT NAMES THE PADSTOW LIFE-BOAT On the left, Commander T. G. Michelmore, T.D., R.N.R., chief inspector of life-boats; behind the Duchess, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A., Secretary of the Institution (See page... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
By the Time the Fast Afloat Boat 4 Prototype
Developing new lifeboats to meet the needs of the 1990s and into the next century is an expensive business. By the time the Fast Afloat Boat 4 prototype pictured here enters service it is estimated that production boats will cost some... - View image in PDF
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The Great Exhibition of 1851: The Festival of Britain 1951
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to April 30th, 1952 77,697 The Great Exhibition of 1851: The Festival of Britain 1951 IN 1851 a...
Category: Articles
A Book on the Cornish Life-Boats
THE seaboard of Cornwall can present two faces—the milder one—that usually seen by the summer visitor—is a pleasant one of sun-baked sands, regular lines of surf delightful for bathing, quaint houses and harbours, and granite rocks arranged...
Category: Articles
The Duchess of Kent and the Walmer Medallists
In the foreground, the Princess Alexandra and Lord Waverley; behind the Duchess, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, secretary of the Institution (See page 323). - View image in PDF
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The Women Launchers of Dungeness
[This interview was broadcast in the B.B.C. programme Radio Newsreel on 19th of March, 1953, when Mr. Valentine Selsey of the B.B.C. spoke to Miss Madge Tart and Mrs. Ellen Tart, of Dungeness. It is reproduced by the courtesy of the B.B.C.] ...
Category: Articles
The Icelandic Steam-Trawler Baldur
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 2.25 in the afternoon of the 20th of July, 1948, the Portpatrick Radio Station telephoned that the Icelandic steam- trawler Baldur, on passage from Fleet- wood to Iceland, was approaching Campbeltown and...