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Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 529 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CUE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement Manager: BARBARA...
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Coxswain W. Watts Williams
Coxswain William Watts Williams, of St. David's, who died on the 7th Jan- uary, 1963, had served as coxswain of the St. David's life-boat for 19 years.
During this period the St. David's life- boat was launched...
Category: Obituaries
St Malo
.—At 3.15 P.M. on the 18th March a French cargo steamer, named the St. Malo, and belonging to St. Nazaire, struck the bar when leaving the harbour, and knocked round broad- side to the sea. The Life-boat Michael Henry was sent to her...
Right: Fergal Walsh and Peter Cuthbert
flight: Fergal Walsh and Peter Cuthbert Picture; fl ML I/Sue Denny. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lines on Seeing a Life-Boat In An Inland Town
GOD speed thee, thou life-boat! for blest is thy mission— To save poor weak man from the wild ocean's rage; When the heavens are black, and the dark waves are roaring, And dread is the war which the elements wage.
All...
Category: Poetry
Roaring water
Two fishermen faced the reality of the most dangerous profession as they drifted off Co Cork
Just before 9am on Wednesday 22 June, as many of the lifeboat and shore volunteers of Baltimore were...
Category: Articles
Letter to the Editor
SIR - I am a life-boat enthusiast and as such I am particularly interested in boats and equipment. As there must be others like myself, would it be possible to form a R.N.L.I. Enthusiasts' Club ? May I, through this journal, ask what...
Category: Correspondence
Paul Archer-Jones, Second Coxswain At Rhyl Lifeboat Station
Paul Archer-Jones, Second Coxswain at Rhyl lifeboat station, is a self-employed electrician. He also works on the service boats that take maintenance staff out to the local windfarms.. - View image in PDF
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Above: Three Generations of Boathouses at the Mumbles
Above: Three generations Of boathouses at The Mumbles - the old ALB boathouse is in the right foreground with the new ILB boathouse in the centre and the current slipway station in the distance.. - View image in PDF
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An Aeroplane and Dinghy
FEBRUARY 9TH. - KILLYBEGS, CO. DONEGAL. At 4.45 in the afternoon the military look-out post at Mullaghmore telephoned that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea one mile from the post, and that the airmen were taking to their dinghy. A...