It can sometimes be forgotten that the excitement of having a new lifeboat on station is often tinged with real sadness at losing an old friend - a lifeboat which has see the crew through thick and thin and whose every nut, bolt and foible... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
CAPTAIN HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.G., R.N., in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide second...
Category: Meetings
1956: below) HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, at Walmer, presents the station's centenary vellum to Sir Gerald Wollaston, branch chairman. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Keystone Press. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
MUDEFORD, Hampshire, was on of the first stations to take an inshore life-boat in 1963.
It was operated on an experimental basis during the summer of that year. The boat was withdrawn for the winter and then Iudeford was...
Category: Articles
(Below) The Humber Lifeboat Appeal's mascot, Bevan Bear, is pictured meeting for the very first time his namesake Brian Bevan (left), and two of the Humber lifeboat crew when he visited the lifeboat station... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ian picks the winners Ian Ventham, RNLI Head of Fundraising and Marketing, (pictured with Judith Saint, Finance and Systems Manager) drew the winners of the Lifeboat Lottery on 29 October. The 87th draw, which took place at lifeboat...
Category: Articles
To the seaman the weather experienced during the year 1889 must be considered as exceptionally favourable, for, like its predecessors 1887 and 1888, storms were of very rare occurrence in the British Islands, and as a necessary consequence,...
Category: Articles
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 3.38 on the morning of the 25th of May, 1960, the signalman at St. Peter Port harbour told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen about four miles south of the harbour. At 4.3 the life-boat...
Ewen Solon, Known to Millions of Viewers As Lucas In the BBC TV Maigret Series, Plays the Part of the Coxswain In the British Iron and Steel Federation's Film Against the Tide. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cecil Picknett, last surviving crew member of the pulling lifeboat Fifi and Charles stationed at Redcar from 1907 to 1931. In 1931 he was appointed assistant mechanic of Redcar's first motor lifeboat Louisa Poldeit, a post he held u n t...
Category: Obituaries