Why is a ship always a she, and why is she invariably launched with ceremony and usually the traditional bottle of champagne (arrowed)?. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
detail from a poster published after World War I showing lifeboat services to ships mined, torpedoed or wrecked as a result of the war.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sigurd Golje, one of Sweden's latest rescue cruisers, will be visiting Plymouth in July. In January she was breaking ice in the Bothnian Gulf.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
There was a wealth of models at the show—and a wealth of knowledge for all who liked to ask photograph by courtesy of 'Western Morning News'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Helpers at Dungeness moving skids in position in preparation for hauling up the life-boat to its new boat house built on a shingle mound.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
City of Glasgow Ill's Y-Boat Takes Five Belgian Yachtsmen Off The Yacht Bassurelle After She Had Been Driven Aground By Onshore Winds. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hundreds of eager walkers took part in a 20-mile hike to raise funds for the lifeboat stations in North Kent. The hike, organised by the Medway branch, was started by lifeboatmen from Sheerness and the walkers tramped from Upnor Sailing Club... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) . . . 1974: Coxswain Derek Scott, BEM, of The Mumbles, guest speaker, made a truly memorable speech. On his left, Cdr Ralph Swann, CBE RNVR, at that time chairman of the Institution . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr Coates stops for a well-earned rest and a bite to eat on his 55-mile walk along the Nidderdale Way.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) 1949 was the year in which Jim Bunting first became a member ofDonaghadee lifeboat crew. He has been coxswain since 1968.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs