LAST year the Institution received from its Southern Africa Branch £1,500.
Since the branch was established at a meeting in Cape Town in February, 1942, it has contributed £33,000. The first of three motor...
Category: Branches
Against the flow – the first woman to sail solo the ‘wrong way’ around the world
by Dee Caffari
Review by Tim Robertson
The comparisons are inevitable I suppose – two women competing solo in a...
Category: Articles
ROGERSTOWN, Co. DUBLIN.—In Feb- ruary 1873, a vessel was wrecked near this place, and the crew were nearly all day in the rigging before they could be rescued, there being no Life-boat at hand; the exposure resulted in the death of one of...
Category: Articles
OCTOBER 6TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. Shortly after two in the morning the Ramsey coastguard informed both life-boat stations that a ship was in distress W.S.W. of the Chicken Rock.
Port Erin was asked...
Thursday, 20th April, 1939.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported that His Grace the Duke of Portland, K.G., had agreed to become acting president of the Institution during the absence in...
Category: Committee
WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX.—On the morning of the 25th October, the coastguard watchman reported to the Coxswain that rockets were being sent up eastward of the Life-boat house, and as the Coxswain left his house he saw another rocket discharged. He...
Informa- tion was received on the 15th April, from the Police at Port St. Mary, through the Coastguard, that a man had reported that a steamer was on the rocks in the Sound and in a dangerous posi- tion. The Motor Life-boat Ethel Day...
Taking water ON SUNDAY, JULY 11, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Horton and Port Eynon ILB station that red flares had been reported off Oxwich Point, and at 2007 the ILB was launched and set course at full speed for the...
JUNE 5TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At eleven in the morning the Castletown coastguard reported a small yacht in Derbyhaven Bay flying a signal. A later message said that she had lost her small boat and that her cable had parted. A...
Run for his money Clive Morris, Port Talbot crew member pictured wearing an RNLI tee-shirt, ran from the RNLI regional office in Cardiff to the lifeboat station at Port Talbot raising £1,250. He was waved off by office staff Vicky,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs