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Shucks! We're Hillsborough's official charity
The RNLI is the official charity of this year’s Hillsborough International Oyster Festival.
Seafood lovers will gather in the Co Down town to chow down on a slippery supper, watch the World Oyster Eating Championship and...
Category: Articles
Lean Machines
The new Atlantic lifeboat workshop at the RNLI's Inshore Lifeboat Centre in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, was officially opened by RNLI President The Duke of Kent on 16 April. The workshop will see the building and refits of the charity’s...
Category: Articles
Gale Service In the Pentland Firth
AT 11.40 on the night of the 6th of December, 1959, the honorary secre- tary of the Longhope, Orkneys, life- boat station, Dr. S. Peace, was told by the Kirkwall coastguard that the trawler George Robb was ashore on the Stacks of...
Category: Services
The R.N.L.I. Goes to Miami
EARLY last year Mr. Hugh Matheson, jr., of the Jamaica Inn, Miami, Florida, U.S.A., made a request for English life-boat service photographs to hang in a room there. His request was fulfilled.
In October came news that,...
Category: Articles
Feathered friend
28 January: Littlehampton Crew Member Jon Maidment is pictured with ‘Sammy’ the swan. The crew found Sammy bleeding and in distress with fishing line lodged in his throat, picked him up (but not without some...
Category: Articles
City of London Appeal
The launching of an appeal for funds for a prototype 47ft fast slipway lifeboat to be named City of London was held at Fishmongers' Hall by the River Thames on the evening of November 25, 1980. Welcoming the guests, Lord Inchcape,...
Category: Donations
A Detail from a Painting By Dr E. H. Sears of Minstead Lyndhurst Hants of the Last Moments of the Longhope Life-Boat Before the Seas Lifted Her Up So That She Was Found
A detail from a painting by Dr. E. H. Sears, of Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hants, of the last moments of the Longhope life-boat before the seas lifted her up so that she was found hours later upturned..
Category: Drawings
The RNLI and the Fire Services National Benevolent Fund
The RNLI and the Fire Services National Benevolent Fund both received cheques for £475 in March as the result of a fire engine pull from Cheltenham to Tewksbury. The event saw Cheltenham branch members, together with local fire fighters... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bronze Medal Service By the Spurn Motor Life-Boat
AT ten o'clock on the night of 18th October two vessels were seen to be aground and showing signals of distress on the sandbanks, in the mouth of the Humber, known as The Binks, and the Spurn Motor Life-boat was launched. A strong wind...
Category: Medals
The Four Gallantry Awardees
The four Gallantry Awardees met HRH Prince Charles the day before the APA. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs