Charting progress I recently finished reading the Spring 1994 issue of THE LIFEBOAT and am, as always, utterly amazed at the achievements of the Institution over the years.
The accounts of the lifeboat services in...
Category: Correspondence
CUMBERLAHD.—On the 17th April, 1866, information was received, during a strong gale from W.S.W., that a schooner was on shore on Dub Mill Scar, about eight miles E N.E. of this place, with a flag of distress flying. In a very short time the...
Category: Services
The Chief Inspector of Lifeboats, Lt.- Commander W. L. G. Dutton, RD, RNR, of Dorking, with his wife. Olive, when he received the OBE from the Queen on February 20. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 5.0 on the evening of the llth of August, 1951, a visitor reported to the police that a barge seemed to be in difficulties off Holland Haven. The police informed the coastguard at Clacton, but as the Clacton...
Rescue in the surf SILVER MEDAL A CALL CAME THROUGH to Tyne Tees Coastguard at 0101 on the morning of Saturday April 15, 1986, that a disabled fishing vessel, the 60ft La Morlaye, with three men on board, was in danger of going aground just...
Shortly before 8 A.M., on the 2nd April, it was reported that the fishing fleet were at sea and some of them were coming for the har- bour. There was a strong W.N.W.
breeze, and the sea was growing on the Bar as the tide...
Lt David Stogdon, MBE, former superintendent of depot, Cowes, joined the RNLI in 1952.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
NOTICE All contributions for the Institution should be sent to the honorary secretary of the local branch or guild, to Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., Secretary, Royal National Life-boat Institution, 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I (Tel:...
Category: Articles
Holy Island, Northumberland. - 11.45 in the morning of the 6th of February, 1948, the coxswain saw that a fishing coble was in danger of driving on to the Megstone Rock, and the motor h'fe-boat Gertrude was launched at 12.20.<...
100 Years Ago The following three items were first published in the journals of February. Mav and Aueust. 1885.CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 7th September, during a gale of wind from the W., a schooner was seen...
Category: Articles