Hands up: Keith Cook, an RNLI life governor, was at Aldeburgh lifeboat station last year when he came across this peculiar sight (left). Is it a particularly poignant appeal for funds or simply a case of all hands to the rescue?. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
LIFE-BOATS AND HELICOPTER IN LONG SEARCH Beaumaris, Anglesey; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 8.32 on the evening of the 13th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the Beaumaris honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down off...
ON the afternoon of 16th September, 1962, Mr. Kenneth Johnson and his brother, Mr. Frank Johnson, with six of their children aged between two and twelve, went on board Mr. Kenneth Johnson's cabin cruiser, which was one of the Dolphin...
Category: Services
ST. IVES, CORNWALL. — On the 17th November, while a strong gale was blowing from the N.W. and a heavy sea was running, the Life-boat temporarily placed heie during the absence of the station's boat which was being altered and improved,...
CASUALTY FOUND 20FT FROM ROCKY LKK SHORK Crew rescued from fishing vessel in Force 11 winds and total darkness Coxswain/Mechanic Thomas Ralston of Mallaig has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for rescuing two men and their...
MABLETHORPE (LINCOLNSHIRE).—In a former number of the Life-boat Journal (217), it was mentioned that the boat at this station had been replaced by a new one of the Liverpool type, 36 ft.
long by 9 ft. wide, and that she was...
Category: Inaugurations
Last August a dream came true for disabled pensioner Albert Moss when he parachuted from 13,000ft above the Yorkshire coast - boosting lifeboat coffers by £700 in the process.. - View image in PDF
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IN August, 1825, seventeen months after the founding of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, a life-saving j society was formed at Boulogne, with the title " La Societe Humaine et des Naufrages de Boulogne." It was the first...
Category: Articles
Hanna Nuuttila, RNLI Crew Member from New Quay, Cardiganshire, is the RNLI Photographer of the year 2008. Hanna’s winning entry shows Pwllheli’s Mersey class lifeboat Lilly and Vincent Anthony going to the aid of the yacht Galasma in force 8...
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