LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Left) the 35Ft 6In Liverpool Class Lifeboat Aguila Wren on Station at Aberystwyth from 1951 to 1964 Returning from a Service Call
(Left) The 35ft 6in Liverpool class lifeboat Aguila Wren, on station at Aberystwyth from 1951 to 1964, returning from a service call.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ennal's Point
Ray Kipling, public relations officer RNLI, has been talking to Alun Richards, the Welsh novelist and play write who has adapted his lifeboat-based novel 'Ennal's Point' into a six-part television drama series which will be shown...
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An Original Cartoon By Mac of the Daily Mail Was One of the Lots at Truro Branch's Celebrity Auction at New Tregye Hotel Carnon Downs Last September Some 200 Let
An original cartoon by Mac of the Daily Mail was one of the lots at Truro branch's celebrity auction at New Tregye Hotel, Carnon Downs, last September, Some 200 letters written to famous people resulted in 84 buttons for auction. A... - View image in PDF
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Some Ways of Raising Money
Mr. C. J. H. Thornhill, of Stanbrook and Thornhill, Holland Street, London, writes: I have kept a life-boat collecting box on my yacht (a smack built in 1894) for a year and during that period, by merely rattling it around the crew at...
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Jan Brons
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. The life-boat Annie Blanche Smith put out on nth March, 1964 to the help of the Dutch motor vessel Jan Brons. A full account of the service will appear in the next number of THE LIFE-BOAT. The lifeboat was also...
Celia's supporting role
A stellar acting career and a passion for the sea unite in Celia Imrie’s latest role – and thoughts of lifeboats are never far away
As someone who regularly takes the ferry journey from...
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Four of the Programme Sellers at the Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball Held By the Central London Committee at the Dorchester Hotel Last November: (I to R) Julia Kerr Lul
Four of the programme sellers at the Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball held by the Central London Committee at the Dorchester Hotel last November: (I. to r.) Julia Kerr, Lula Wellard, Vanessa Bellamy and Jasmine Taylor. Such was the advertising... - View image in PDF
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Touring Rnli Depot and Headquarters at Poole on October 7 Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution Is Shown the Rigging Loft (Above Left) By Joe Salmon and Watches Len Wlodek At
Touring RNLI depot and headquarters at Poole on October 7, HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, is shown the rigging loft (above left) by Joe Salmon and watches Len Wlodek at work on a coir how fender. He inspected a propeller... - View image in PDF
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The Steam Life-Boats for Grimsby and Padstow: A New Departure
IT is just a year (vide Life-boat Journal, February, 1898) since a description was given in these pages of the steam Life- boat Queen, which was sent to her station at New Brighton in October, 1897. After the launch of that boat and before...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1883
Jan. 4.—Voted 31. to three fishermen for putting off in a boat and saving at some risk, the crew, consisting of four men, of the Norwegian sciiooner Johanna, which was wrecked on Car Carrig Rock, off the coast of Fifeshire, during a whole...
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