With Summer around the corner, it may prove difficult to remember the frozen winter months, and as usual, the hardest hit by snow were Scotland and the North.
Sea transport showed its advantages in these conditions as RNLI...
A close-up broadside view of the model: note the faithful reproduction of the anchor stowage and of the stanchions and guard chains: it took Mr Turland seven hours to fit just one of the bottle screws. Note also the buo ancy blocks behind... - View image in PDF
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THE Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, on this its fortyfourth anniversary, beg to return their hearty thanks to all those who have kindly given them their moral and pecuniary support; and they desire also publicly to...
Category: Annual Reports
DEC. 2 0TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At about 3 P.M. information was received through the coastguard that a steamer had been blown up about two miles south of Blyth. A light E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a slight sea.
Naylor Swift of the Carmarthen branch of the R.N.L.I, is hoping to start a new fund-raising scheme this year. It is the 'basket supper' where couples bring baskets containing supper for two. Each basket is given a number and the men...
Category: Donations
50 Years Ago The following article appeared in the December, 1936, issue of THE LIFEBOAT: The Last of the Life-boat Horses.
WHEN the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935, reached Wells, Norfolk, on llth February...
Category: Articles
JUST after midnight of 28th April, the driver and fireman of a railway train entering Berwick-on-Tweed reported that they had seen signals of distress close in shore. The railway station rang up the Coast Guard, who informed the Life-Boat...
People in America have been only less generous than our own people overseas.
One donor, in Texas, has already sent £300 this year, and a lady in California has sent £49 because "she had been thrilled indeed...
Category: Articles
THE life-boat service can look back with both satisfaction and gratitude on the year 1963 as a whole. Life-boats saved no fewer than 354 lives; the new inshore rescue boats saved 10 lives, and 224 lives were saved by shore- boats in services...
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ABOVE AND BELOW DECKS, the first prototype of the fast slipway lifeboat (FSB) is gradually taking shape in Fairey Marine's yard at Cowes. With some of the work progress is obvious; other jobs involve perhaps weeks of 'behind the...
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