On the 25th October the Christopher Ludlow Life-boat of this station was enabled to render valuable assistance to the brigantine Richard Thompson, of Belfast, which had •gone on Dungarvan Bar during a fresh breeze at S.S.W. The sea broke...
HSL ESTABLISHED 1968 I FREE DELIVERY (UK MAINLAND! •sasssT s J~ -vxy -v-Xr -v'~ V BACK-CARE CHAIRS for easy sitting & rising FflOM ONLY ELECTRICALLY ADJUSTABLE BEDS, with push-button control, to make life easier in bed. Choice of...
Category: Advertisement
IN 1939 the number of launches on service and the number of lives rescued were both the largest in the history of the Institution.
There were 685 launches, that is 200 more than the 485 launches in 1938, which was up to...
Category: Services
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, on Friday, the 21st day of March, 1873, The Right Hon. SIR SYDNEY H. WATERLOW, Lord Mayor of London, in the Chair, the following Report of...
Category: Annual Reports
Coxswain Michael Berry, St Helier On September 3, 1983, Coxswain Berry took his lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Thomas James King, three miles in among rocks to rescue three people from the yacht Cythara in a force 9 strong... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) Invited guests were joined by many other spectators aboard the island's launches. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of F. E. Gibson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Saving Display By The "William & Kate Johnston" at The Inaugural Ceremony. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Winner Mersey class lifeboat Fisherman's Friend in Poole Harbour. By Hilary Watkins, Broadmayne, Dorset.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Director Brian Miles presents a plaque to Bnxham builders Lock and Williams in recognition of their help in restoring the Teignmouth lifeboat house. Photo Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-boat Grace Darling was launched on the 3rd February to assist the crew of the Berwick-on-Tweed Life- boat to make the Holy Island Harbour safely.
The Berwick Life-boat had put off in a strong northerly gale and...