The Life-boat was again afloat on service on the 1st October. On that day the ijHjhooner Courier, of Lerwick, while at anchor in Peterhead Bay, made signals for assistance on the gale increasing from, the eastward. A large pilot-boat put off...
Cycles at the ready: I to r, postman, Mr Semple, Jim Berry, Walton and Frinton lifeboat mechanic, Keith Richardson, assistant mechanic, Coxswain Dennis Finch and chairman of the ladies' guild, Mrs Robertson.. - View image in PDF
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THOSE OF OUR MEMBERS who are lucky enough to be boat owners will no doubt be enjoying the start of the season with, this year, its unusually warm and sunny spring weekends. We wish you good sailing.
Now that the membership...
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Awards to coxswains, crew members and shore helpers 1995 The following coxswains, crew members and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them under the Institution's regulations were... - View image in PDF
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Caister, Norfolk - At 11.27 a.m. on llth August, 1969, it was learnt that the motor vessel Norwich Belle had sighted a fishing vessel in difficulties near the South Caister shoal buoy.
The life-boat Royal Thames was...
The eighty-eighth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Whitehall Rooms on Thursday, March 14th, 1912. His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., presided, and amongst those present were: — The...
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The first of the RNLI's new 25-knot Severn class lifeboats has entered service at Harwich in Essex.. - View image in PDF
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THE Institution has received a gift from a Liverpool man who celebrated his twenty-first birthday by asking his friends, instead of buying him presents, to give him money for the life-boat service..
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"Every Town Ought to Have a Flag-Day for the Life-boats." THE Secretary of the Institution had the honour of accompanying the Prince of Wales during part of his tour of the depots on London Life-boat Day. His Royal Highness asked...
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News Battered and brave A passing journalist captured one of the most iconic images of the RNLI’s history when he photographed the Scarborough lifeboat and crew in action in May 2005 (above). They were searching for a mother and her children...
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