Major Osman Gabriel having the controls of the Rother class lifeboat he has presented to the R.N.L.I. explained to him at the Boat Show. With him are (left) Coxswain/Mechanic William Dent and Mr. Evan Owens, Moelfre's retired motor... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In May we recognised our volunteers', supporters' and fundraisers' outstanding achievements at our Annual Presentation of Awards
HRH The Duke of Gloucester was the RNLI Guest of...
Category: Articles
MARCH 7TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 9.45 P.M.
a message was received from the Gorleston coastguard that the South Knoll Light-vessel had reported a ship on fire two miles N.E.
of the...
At 9 A.M. on the 18th March a telegram was received from the Coastguard at | St. Andrews stating that a vessel was making for the Tay close in-shore and setting towards the sands. The Cox- swain assembled the crew of the new motor Life-boat...
BRIGADIER N. B. Brading, C.M.G., C.B.E., Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu, M.P., and the Duke of Atholl have been co- opted members of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
Brigadier Brading served as an officer of the East...
Category: Committee
CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The Life-boat Ellen and Eliza was launched at 10.50 P.M. on the 6th February, 1899, in keenly frosty weather, while a moderate southerly breeze was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea and a thick haze, and went...
Category: Services
Awards to Coxswains, crews and shore helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were also...
Category: Awards
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—1st November, 1937. An aeroplane appeared to have come down in the Tay, but after touching the water it rose again and went on.—Rewards, £6 12s..
" Britain's Life-boats : The Story of a Century of Heroic Service." By Major A. J. DAWSON, with an Introduction by H.R.H. the PBI.VCE OF WALES, K.Gr., President of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, and a Fore- word by...
Category: Advertisement
JUNE 23RD. - TOBERMORY, HEBRIDES.
On the afternoon of the 23rd June the local doctor asked for the life-boat to convey a woman with acute appendicitis to Oban. A light N.W. wind was blowing and the sea was calm, but no...