Fisherman plucked to safety by D class as night falls T Lifeboats he three crew members of Sunderland's D class inshore lifeboat received a framed letter of thanks from David Acland, the RNLI's Chairman following a service in poor...
THE past winter has been remarkable for a succession of terrible westerly gales. In their frequency and intensity they have been unequalled during the present century. October opened with gales on eight successive days, from the 1st to the...
Category: Services
BARMOUTH.—On the 18th September, at 5 a.m., a small schooner was observed to be on shore on the North Bar, off Barmouth, on the Welsh coast, her crew being lashed in the rigging. The life-boat of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was, as...
Category: Services
IT is now six years since the first experiments were made with Motor Caterpillar Tractors for launching Lifeboats off flat beaches. Tractors have been placed at a number of Stations, and although the type used has not been suitable for...
Category: Inaugurations
RNLI Videos Lifeboats 24/7 £8.00* The story of the RNLI with rescue reconstructions I Building support for lifeboats £8.00* Constructing the lifeboat shore facilities I I Five minutes with the RNLI plus f) Saved by a motor lifeboat...
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A special thank you They say that just before you die, your whole life passes before you. At the age of eight you haven't had much of a life so when you come close to 'it', you really can recall everything.
My...
Category: Correspondence
A 15 year old youth ran up to a group of fishermen by the harbour at Dunbar, East Lothian, and told them that his brother had been washed off the rocks at the harbour entrance.
Coxswain Robert Brunton, who was present with...
Category: Services
FISHING BOAT TOWED THROUGH HEAVY SEAS Howth, Co. Dublin. At 1.13 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the Baily lighthouse keeper reported that he had received a radio message from Lambay Island that the fishing boat Ranger of...
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10 p.m.
on 2nd August, 1965, the motor yacht Queen of the Isles reported that a yacht was sinking three miles east of Menawethan.
Fifteen minutes later the lifeboat...
This masterpiece of chocolate confectionery floating on a sea of blue icing and donated by Thorntons, was just one of many prizes in a 'short odds' raffle held during the 1989 Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball which was held at the London... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs