• Ever since John Corin retired from his job as public relations officer at the Port of Bristol in 1981 and returned to his native Cornwall, he has been actively publicising the RNLI. He revised and expanded the Penlee station history which...
Category: Articles
Baltimore, Co. Cork. At 8.30 a.m. on 6th October, 1963, Valentia Radio told the honorary secretary that one of the crew of the m.v. Oranmore had been seriously injured following a collision between the m.v. Oranmore and the m.v.
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AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, the 16th day of March 1880, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, Lord Privy Seal,...
Category: Annual Reports
CAISTER.—On the morning of the 23rd February, 1896, the Cockle Light-vessel fired guns and rockets. The Life-boat Covent Garden was taken out of her house, and while she was being launched a coast- guardman arrived and informed the cox-...
Category: Services
the news that a relative of the Fish family is working on a biography of Coxswain Charles Fish, the famous Ramsgale lifeboat men who is associated with the wreck of the Indian Chief in 1881, comes a picture of David Fish, great grandson. He... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A dramatic shot of Teesmouth's Tyne class lifeboat City of Sheffield during her service to the Swedish vessel Stora Korsnas Link 1 which was on fire with a potentially explosive cargo. A full account of this service which, ironically,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
THE two new motor life-boats stationed at Cromer in 1934 and 1935 were named this year by the Right Hon.
Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt., P.C., G.C.S.I., G.B.E., C.M.G., M.R, Secretary of State for Home Affairs.
The...
Category: Inaugurations
(Above) Southend's lifeboat Greater London II (Civil Service No.
30) launched for the last time on Sunday, March 28, before leaving station. She has been replaced by an Atlantic 21.
photograph by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Newcastle, Co. Down.—2nd September.
Two boats had been separated from a motor boat which had them in tow, but she succeeded in picking them up again.—Rewards, £17 13s. 6d..
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire - At 7.55 p.m. on 2ist May, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that a yacht had capsized one mile north of Penmaen Head. The life-boat Lilly Wainwright was launched at 8.20 and on her way to the reported...