The Walmer life-boat at the stern of the Dutch coaster Hunzeborg after the latter had been in collision with a Greek ship near the Goodwin Sands on 13th August, 1966. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Chairman of the Management Committee, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham- Quin, R.N., pictured with life-boat officials and members of the crew at Blackpool on 26th February, 1967.. - View image in PDF
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Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 11.15 a.m. on 7th December, 1969, report was received that a motor boat with engine trouble had anchored to the north west of the harbour entrance. At 11.30 the boat was seen to fire a distress flare. The...
Ferry collision HARWICH HARBOUR RADIO received a call at 2251 on Sunday December 19, 1982, from the outward bound roll-on roll-off ferry European Gateway reporting that she was in collision with the inward bound ferry Speedlink Vanguard in...
Slaughden, a mile and half south of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, was once a busy port. In the late 1950s, when this photograph was taken, the longshoremen there were advertising their various skills by means of painted signs.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The RNLI's Operations Room needs your help - do you have any surplus 'Sasco' magnetic characters to spare?. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboatmen save people and livestock from flooded towns In the early hours of 18 October 1990 the towns of Ballycastle and nearby Cushendall in Co. Antrim were badly flooded, and Red Bay lifeboat station and two of the Crew Members at...
D class saves three from holed yacht Helmsman Gary Miller and crew members Russell Wignall and Martin Jaggs of Lytham St Annes D class inshore lifeboat have received framed letters of thanks from the RNLI's chairman after the rescue of...
AT 9.25 on the night of the 21st of September, 1953, the Tenby coast- guard learnt that the pumps in the St.
Gowan lightvessel had stopped work- ing and that she was in danger of sinking. There were seven men on board the...
Category: Services
THE Greek Government has awarded to the Selsey and Bognor motor life-boat its silver nautical medal for gallantry, in gratitude for the service to the steamer Menelaos, which was in distress on 2nd November, 1930.1 A gale was blowing, with a...
Category: Awards