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Staff at Swanseas Industrial and Maritime Museum have discovered that a dilapidated boat they have been repairing for a few months is of significant importance to Welsh nautical history
RNLI volunteers gather outside Manchester Town Hall on a historic day for charity fundraising. Until the late 1880s, the RNLI mostly relied on wealthy philanthropists for financial support
The coxswain, Mr Fred Warts and the signalman Mr John Wells tie up the Barry lifeboat, the Rachel and Mary Evans, as she arrives back at Barry harbour after her six months refit at Littlehampton
Aberystwyth lifeboat, circa 1900
The Barry lifeboat speeds away from Barry docks on its annual trip to take Christmas food to the crew of the Trinity House Breaksea Lightship. 23rd December 1969
Vivienne Whiteright, Mandy Clarke, and Phillipa Lewis, female crew members of the Little and Broadhaven lifeboat operating the beat at St Brides Bay, Pembrokeshire. 3rd February 1990
A modern self righting lifeboat, the Tyne class lifeboat 47-010 RFA Sir Galahad, at Tenby, Wales. 15th July 1986
Coxswain Frank Tinsley (right) and Mechanical Second Coxswain Fred Mullay at the controls of the Arthur and Blanche Harris during sea trials off Barry. 1st April 1968
Aberystwyths RNLI crew and their boat at the towns fire station. The fire service came to the rescue of the local lifeboat after it had been cut off from its boathouse due to engineering work
Coxswain Frank Tinsley stands in from of the Barry lifeboat RNLB Arthur and Blanche Harris before getting off on its sea trials off the coast of Barry. 1st April 1968
The Barry Dock lifeboat searches for the missing crew members of a tug. 15th January 1966
Deck hand Eric Fry (left) and Mechanical Second Coxswain Fred Mullay at work on board the Arthur and Blanche Harris lifeboat during its sea trials off the coast of Barry. 1st April 1968
The Barry Dock lifeboat pictures on her return to Barry following a search for a missing man which was called off. 28th March 1963
Frank Tinsley, Coxswain of the Arthur and Blanche Harris Lifeboat, and Second Mechanical Engineer Mike Nash at work on the boat during its sea trials off the coast of Barry.1st April 1968
Coxswain Mr. Frank Tinsley seated at the controls of the Barry lifeboat during an exercise in the Bristol Channel. 4th March 1970
Two airmen are hoisted to the safety of an RAF helicopter after being picked up by Barry lifeboat during an air-sea rescue exercise. 27th January 1966
When the crew members of a Gower-based private rescue service put to sea in future on a mercy mission, they will speed to the scene on board the latest inshore rescue craft
The John and Naomi Beattie, a restored lifeboat, starts its journey from Swansea to Aberystwyth after being relaunched at a special ceremony in Swansea. It is to become a floating exhibit
The Barry coxswain, Mr. Frank Tinsley, ready to board one of the Royal National Lifeboat Institutions new lifeboats, the Blanche and Arthur Harris
The Mayor of Barry (Alderman Ewart Morgan) and the Mayoress of Barry (Miss Eileen Morgan), with members of the Barry Branch of the British Sailors Society leave on a lifeboat on a Christmas visit to
The Barry Dock lifeboat slides down the slipway as she leaves dock to deliver Christmas goods to the Breaksea Light Ship in the Bristol Channel. 23rd December 1961
The Mayor of Barry (Alderman C. T. Price) and local members of the British Sailors SocietyThe Mayor of Barry (Alderman C.T. Price) and local members of the British Sailors Society paid their annual Christmas visit to the men on board the Breaksea lightship in mid Bristol channel today
The Coxswain, Mr Fred Swarts, in the cockpit, and Mr John Wells, the signaller, check over the controls of the Barry lifeboat
The Barry lifeboat, the RNLB Rachel and Mary Evans, arrives back at Barry harbour after her six months refit at Littlehampton, Sussex, under the control of the Coxswain Mr. Fred Swarts
The Barry lifeboat RNLB Rachel and Mary Evans on her way back home after failing to land her passengers on the Breaksea lightship for the annual carol service. 23rd December 1966
Barry lifeboat rescue four men from a cabin cruiser. After they brought the men to safety they went back out to bring the boat into Barry harbour. 20th December 1978
Barry Dock takes delivery of a new reserve lifeboat, RNLB Susan Ashley, to replace the one wrecked in a gale off the Somerset coast four years earlier
87 year old William Prethero, a former RNLI member, pictured at Barry as the new Arun class lifeboat RNLB Arun, a a £ 120, 000 self righting boat
The naming ceremony of the New Barry Dock lifeboat the Arthur and Blanche Harris was performed at Barry Docks by Lady Traherne, the wife of the Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan
The Lifeboat William Maynard leaves her shed for a practice launch at Ferryside launch station, Carmarthenshire. 20th September 1947
Coxswain Bob Davies prepares to fire the last maroon as the Ferryside station prepares to be closed down at the end of the month. In the background is the Hon. Secretary Lt. Col. Charles Neville
Ferryside lifeboat Richard Ashley in a practice launch in the Estuary, Carmarthenshire, Wales. 8th July 1969
Ferryside Lifeboat Richard Ashley with coxswain David Arthur. July 1969
Ferryside lifeboat Caroline Oates Aver and William Maine plunges away from her launching carriage for her last cruise in the Towy estuary before the station is closed at the end of the month
The motor lifeboat William Maynard leaves the boathouse for a practice launch at Ferryside station, Carmarthenshire. 8th July 1969
Charity Walk Completed, these young participants enjoy a rest and pint of beer, the West Bromwich Charity Walk is in aid of the Mayors Holiday Home for the Aged Project
Postmaster General John Stonehouse, on the eve of the introduction of his two tier postal system, the MP for West Bromwich, unsuccessfully attempts to by a stamp from the machine at Westbury
West Bromwich Charity Walk in aid of the Mayors Holiday Home for the Aged Project, which aims to raise ten thousand pounds, 200 people took part
The Mayor flanked by Pc Colin Horne (left) and Pc Simon Cross dish out some Christmas cheer at the Salvation Army lunch, Cambridge Citadel, Tenison Road, Cambridge, Christmas Day 25th December 1975
Gotcha... Sgt John Langford and Pc David Christie apprehend convicts at Parkside, from left, Paul Brazir, Steve Rawlins and Steve Woolford, Sponsored Criminals for the day, Cambridge
Cher, American singer and actress, at the Look Ahead hostel project in Dock Street, London, where she had been invited to unveil a mural created and designed by the hostel
Cher, American singer and actress at London Gatwick Airport, where a specially chartered DC8 is being loaded with humanitarian aid for Armenia
Cher, American singer, presents cheque for 15, 000 pounds to representatives of the Cranial Facial Foundation, on behalf of the Sunday People newspaper, backstage, ahead of her Heart of Stone Tour
Santa arrives at Huyton Fire Station, for a special Christmas party for 20 lucky boys and girls, the crew on Green Watch raised the money for the event ny running 10km around Birkenhead Park
Life in 1960s Colonial Hong Kong, with a rapidly growing population of more than 4 million people, many are forced to live in squatter shacks and shanty towns, Pictured January 1968
Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret attend a gala charity matinee of ballet in aid of the Royal Academy of Dancing, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
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