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The North West Passage - who was first? I am most concerned to read in The Lifeboat that David Scott- Cowper in the ex-lifeboat Mabel E. Holland carried out the first single handed navigation of the 2,000 mile North West...
Category: Correspondence
Rowland Hill's Painting In the Whilby Art Gallery of the Wreck of the Hospital Ship Rohilla on October 30 1914 When the Rnli Made Desperate Efforts to Rescue Patients
Rowland Hill's painting in the Whilby Art Gallery of the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla on October 30, 1914, when the RNLI made desperate efforts to rescue patients and nurses..
Category: Drawings
Coxswain Derek Scott BEM of the Mumbles Life-Boat Receiving a Bar to His Silver Medal from the Duke of Kent President of the RNLI at the Annual Meeting In Lond
Coxswain Derek Scott, B.E.M., of the Mumbles life-boat, receiving a bar to his silver medal from the Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I. at the annual meeting in London on 18th May.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Blyth: (Right) the Bottle of Champagne Breaks As the Duchess of Northumberland Names the 44Ft Waveney Lifeboat Rnlb William and Jane on September 17 1983 And
Blyth: (Right) The bottle of champagne breaks as the Duchess of Northumberland names the 44ft Waveney lifeboat RNLB William and Jane on September 17, 1983, and …. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sprite' the Lifeboat's Mascot (Provided By Osbornes for All Lifeboats Built By the Yard) Watches Over the Inside Steering Position With Its Engine Controls and Electroni
'Sprite', the lifeboat's mascot (provided by Osbornes for all lifeboats built by the yard) watches over the inside steering position with its engine controls and electronics.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Liberty Ship, The American Motor Vessel George Hawley (1)
JANUARY 21ST. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 3.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities wanted the Sennen Cove life-boat to go to a vessel four miles south-bywest of the Longships. A light northerly...
Annual Report. 1892
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL, LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Princes' Hall, Piccadilly, on Saturday, 30th day of April, 1892, Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair, the following Report of the...
Category: Annual Reports
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—The crew of this Life-boat haying expressed a desire to be provided •with a larger boat, a new one has accordingly been furnished to them, of the following dimensions: length, 32 feet; breadth, 7£ feet; number of...
Category: Articles
The Arrival at Spurn Point of Humber's New
The arrival at Spurn Point of Humber's new Arun class lifeboat Kenneth Thelwall in August, 1987 gave spectators an added bonus when she came in with three .survivors on board, having been diverted to the aid of a sinking yacht four miles... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Camperdown
THURSO, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.—The fishing- boat Camperdown, of Port Knockie, was returning from the fishing grounds on the evening of the 6th February, when a hurricane from W.S.W. suddenly rose and disabled her, breaking the yard and splitting...