LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aberystwyth Lifeboats By Joan Davies
BACK IN THE TIME of the Romans the dip in the cliffs where the River Rheidol and the River Ystwyth come down to Cardigan Bay was already recognised as an important landing place, to be guarded with an encampment. At such a favourable strand,...
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Notes of the Quarter
One of the most outstanding services in the history of the Life-boat Institution is described in this number of THE LIFE-BOAT. It was carried out by the Holyhead and Moelfre life-boats and led to the award of two gold medals. Coxswain...
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The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFB-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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The S.S. Voltaic
NEW BRIGHTON.—The steam Life-boat Queen left her moorings at 6.50 P.M. on the 2nd January, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., with squalls and a very heavy sea, in response to signals of distress which had been shown in the direction...
Janbyrd & Magna Charta
After dark on the 1st of November, the Life-boat George Gay, in answer to signals of distress observed from Penarth, proceeded to the roadstead, where she found two vessels in collision; a strong breeze from the S.W. was blowing at the time,...
As Part of a Rotaract Club of Bristol Fundraising Day Last July on Broadmead Shopping Precinct Podium Geoff Davis Attempted to Beat the World Football Juggling Recor
As part of a Rotaract Club of Bristol fundraising day last July on Broadmead shopping precinct podium, Geoff Davis attempted to beat the world football juggling record; he achieved 1,332 flicks—not a record-beating score but, nevertheless,... - View image in PDF
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(Left) Four Dogs Including the Newfoundland In This Photograph Helped Bristol Central Branch on Their Flag Day Last October Between Them They Collected H20
(Left) Four dogs, including the Newfoundland in this photograph, helped Bristol Central branch on their flag day last October. - View image in PDF
Between them they collected H20.. - View image in PDF
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A German Messerschmitt Pilot His Head Bandaged Because of An Injury Being Landed By the Dungeness Lifeboat on October 7 1940
A German Messerschmitt pilot, his head bandaged because of an injury, being landed by the Dungeness lifeboat on October 7, 1940.. - View image in PDF
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Beaver
HUSBAND SURVIVED At 8.45 a.m. on 19th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser anchored half a mile offshore, two miles north of Ardrossan, had run out of fuel and appeared to have lost a rudder. No other...
Life-Boats and Helicopters
THE committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institution began to give serious consideration to the use of helicopters for rescuing life at sea in 1948, when trials and demon- strations were carried out. Consider- able...
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