IT is satisfactory to find that during the terrific gales of the few months that have passed of the present year, the life-boats in connection with the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have been instrumental in rescuing one hundred and...
Category: Services
Lightning strike Bridlington's Mersey class 1 ifeboat Peggy and Alex Caird, alerted in the service above, is pictured in action later, on 27 June 1989, when she was called to the aid of a Whitbyregistered coble. The vessel had been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Celebrating the Isle of Man's millennium: Port St Mary prepares for the review of the Sail Training fleet by HM King Olaf of Norn-ay, August4, 1979. Port Erin and Port St Mary lifeboats are seen in centre of picture taken from an SAR... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Towing a stricken boat to the safety of port might seem routine but, in often gruelling conditions, it takes great skill and smart decision making. So what’s involved in a tow?
First, the crew must decide whether or not they need...
Category: Articles
Research and Development Officer, RNLI IMAGINE A JANUARY AFTERNOON. Not much wind, but a cold front forecast; the light will fade in a couple of hours; wind and sea will be getting up and the temperature is dropping all the...
Category: Articles
IN the article on this subject in oar last number we stated that nine out of the twelve members of the Royal Commission on Tonnage were unanimous in their recommendations; that three of their number objected to sign the Report, viz., Messrs....
Category: Articles
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ALTHOUGH 1956 was by far the busiest year the Life-boat Service has known in time of peace, in the first three months of the present year even greater demands were made on lifeboat crews than were made in the corresponding months of 1956. By...
Category: Articles
cLose UP Nor any drop to drink to the surprise of many, RnLi lifeboat crews headed inland this summer, responding to a different kind of emergency. Carol Waterkeyn fi nds out what was going on What can be worse than losing your home and...
Category: Articles
What's in a name? Shoreline. We have all become so used to using the name that it is difficult to stand back to examine whether it really does its job of describing the RNLI's membership scheme. In a recent survey carried out by...
Category: Articles