Jan Goddard from Aberdovey lifeboat station is just one of the RNLI's female crew members who play an increasingly important role, not only in active service but also in recruiting new members.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hartlepool Crew Fire Line-Throwing Pistol. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Aberdeen's D class inshore lifeboat Trevor Edwin Jones makes her way cautiously through the flooded caravan park. Thirteen people and six animals were rescued. Photo Aberdeen Evening Express. - View image in PDF
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Save Our Pot Plants Margate's Mersey class lifeboat Leonard Kent was called to another sinking incident in the South East Division, this time on Boxing Day 1992.
The elderly 35ft motor cruiser Norman, with three people...
Eastbourne- Mersey Royal Thames Monday 6 September 1993 dawned fair over the Sovereign Harbour where Eastbourne's new Mersey class was to be named and dedicated by HRH Princess Michael of Kent.
The Princess was greeted...
Category: Inaugurations
H.M. The Queen Inspecting the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Life-Boat Crew During the Royal Tour of the Island Which She Made In July, Accompanied By the Duke of Edinburgh, Who Is Seen Below With the Crew of the IRB. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
THE Institution is again issuing in the autumn a life-boat calendar for the New Year and a life-boat Christmas card.
The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the...
Category: Advertisement
When it's 3.00am in the morning, blowing a gale and the crew are WM paged for a shout, they must launch. From the moment they go to F sea, everything possible has been'done to give them the best ecjuiprnent, the best training and the...
Category: Articles
ALAS! How many wholesale shipwrecks have the last few months witnessed! How many human beings, who might otherwise, like ourselves, have been now enjoying the many and varied blessings which life affords, have been cut off by these sad, sad...
Category: Articles
Second Coxswain William Mowat, of Longhope, and Mr. Edward Bensley, of Gorleston.
Two life-boatmen died last October, each of whom had the remarkable record of fifty-three years' service in the life-boat. One was...
Category: Obituaries