LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The St. Govans Light-vessel (1)
FEBRUARY 8TH and 9TH. - TENBY, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Just before noon the Trinity House at Swansea telephoned to the life-boat station at Tenby, asking if the life-boat could be sent to the St.
Govans Light-vessel as...
Life-Boats on the Air. Broadcasts In 1949
Ix December, 1948, the secretary of the Institution, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A., broadcast a talk "Exploits of the old Sailing Life- boats." This talk was on the air the day after the motor life-boat St. Allans...
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The Life Boat Saturday Fund
THE Central Committee of the LIFE-BOAT SATURDAY FUND and their officers, as well as the District and Local Life-boat Satur- day Committees throughout the country, are to be heartily congratulated on the success of their efforts during the...
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Life-Boat Essay Competition: Presentation of Prizes
The Greater London Shield.
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on 13th July, the Challenge Shield for Greater London and the individual prizes won by the schools of Greater London in the Life-boat Essay Competition this year...
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S.S. Lowick, of Newcastle
FEBRUARY 2ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 11.50 in the morning the coxswain reported a vessel ashore on a slag bank south-east of the South Gare Breakwater. A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a strong sea and heavy rain....
Lord Killanin (Left) President of the Olympic Games Who Is a Member of the Committee of Management of the RNLI and Dr Crochie President of the International Ya
Lord Killanin (left), president of the Olympic Games, who is a member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I., and Dr. Crochie, president of the International Yachtsmen's Union, talk to Commander Leslie Hill, of the R.N.L.I., and... - View image in PDF
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Evening: at Midland Bank's Shoreline Tenth Anniversary Party Presentations Were Made to Sir Alec and Lady Rose By Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston Chairman of T
Evening: At Midland Bank's Shoreline tenth anniversary party, presentations were made to Sir Alec and Lady Rose by Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston. chairman of the Fund Raising Committee (I.), watched by Peter Holness and (r.) Dennis R.... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Irish Willow, the S.S. Empire Breeze
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. During the morning news was received by wireless from the S.S. Irish Willow that she had on board forty-seven survivors from the S.S. Empire Breeze, which had been torpedoed in mid-Atlantic on...
Nellie Moody, of Nova Scotia
.—On the : evening of the 30th January, at about 8 P.M., a large vessel was observed to have 1 struck on the Parthingwy Rocks, near Moelfre. The Lady Vivian Life-boat, which had been sent to that station only a few weeks previously, was...
The RNLI and me: Fern Britton
The TV presenter and author talks Cornwall, creativity and crabbing
What inspired someone who’s spent a lot of their life around London to write about a tiny Cornish fishing village? I’ve loved Cornwall, especially Looe,...
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