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Mr. A. J. Phillips, of Newport, Monmouthshire
Mr. A. J. Phillips, of Newport, Monmouthshire, w o died on 12th September, was one of the Institution's oldest and most devoted supporters.
First as honorary secretary and then as chairman, he had been associated with...
Category: Obituaries
A Converted Ship's Life-Boat (1)
PERILOUS PROXIMITY Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.45 p.m. on 7th July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a converted ship's life-boat was reported to be drifting helplessly towards Dulas rocks in heavy seas before a...
Provider A, Pilot Me and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 17th of March, 1955, the local fish- ing boats Provider A, Pilot Me and Lead Us were at sea in a strong north- westerly wind and a heavy swell.
About ten o'clock it was learned...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SWANAGE, DORSET.—In the month of January, 1875, a shipwreck took place on the Peveril Ledge, off this place, and it was only with difficulty, and by incurring much risk, that the crew were saved through the exertions of the Coast- guardmen...
Category: Articles
Golden Charter
GOLDEN HARTER FUNERAL PLANS The only plan recommended bv ihe National Socletv of Allied & Independent runcral Directors HAVE YOU EVER tried to speak to your family about when you're gone? If they don't want to listen, it's...
Category: Advertisement
(Below) a Visit to Hq Operations Room
(Below) A visit to HQ operations room followed the opening ceremony. While Mrs Thatcher looks through lifeboat photographs, Mr Denis Thatcher signs the visitors' book.
With them are (I to r) Cdr George Cooper, deputy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
'Their hearts must have sunk as they watched us pass them'
It was an overcast morning on 26 August when a father and son began their fishing holiday in Cruden Bay, Aberdeen - a trip that gave them more drama than they bargained for
RNLI Peterhead...
Category: Articles
Boat Show 1982 Earls Court
EACH NEW YEAR, during the Boat Show at Earls Court, the boating industry gives most generous recognition and support to the lifeboat service. Among the eminent people who have been invited to open the show in past years— who include Prince...
Category: Articles
Sick Man Taken In Gale from Lightvessel
AT 7.8 on the evening of the 24th of September, 1958, the honorary secretary of the Barrow, Lancashire, lifeboat station, Mr. T. Downing, was told by the Superintendent of the Trinity House Depot at Holyhead that a member of the crew of the...
Category: Services
John Avins, a 34Ft Selfrightar Lifeboat
John Avins, a 34ft selfrightar lifeboat was stationed at Wick from W95-J905. She launched six times and saved 11 lives.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs