Stromness, Orkney.—During the night of the 9th—10th December, 1938, the Grimsby steam trawler Rinovia, homeward bound from fishing, and carrying a crew of nineteen, ran aground at Rusk Holm, Isle of Eday. Her signals of distress were seen by...
LAST year there was again an increase in the number of branches which held life-boat days, in the number of people who contributed and in the amount collected.
The number of branches holding days was|732, one more than in...
Category: Correspondence
(Right) Between July and October last year Beccles and District branch pirate ship 'raided' holidaymakers on the Norfolk Broads with collecting boxes and raised (.550.11; this year she will be outward bound in March. Her crew are:... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On a squally November night, time was rapidly running out for a fisherman in the water in Fraserburgh Harbour
It was quick thinking, forward planning and great teamwork by the local lifeboat...
Category: Articles
JAN. 3RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 6 A.M. the watchman at the life-boat station reported a steam trawler aground on the Trinity Sands.
breeze was blowing, with a slight sea.
A N.W.<...
Launches 23. Lives rescued 10.
APRIL 2ND. - AITH, SHETLANDS. At 4.30 P.M. the naval officer in charge, Shetlands, asked if the life-boat could take a military guard to Foula, and bring back some airmen whose Whitley bomber...
Category: Services
TRAMORE, COUNTY WATERFORD.—The brig Paul, of Hennebont, was seen standing into the bay on the morning of the 22nd February, after a very stormy night.
She had only two topsails and a jib set and appeared to be labouring...
On the 10th April the barge Arthur Margetts, of Rochester, bound for Brightlingsea with a cargo of crude oil, got into difficulties. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The barge dropped anchor, but it dragged, and she went...
Douglas Head and Harbour, 1974. Note lifeboat boathouse and slip in outer harbour, or Crough; Fort Anne, above inner harbour; and Si Mary's Rock with its Tower of Refuge at bottom right of picture.
photograph by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, paid a visit to the West Country in May, 1952, and named the new life-boats at the Port of Plymouth and at Padstow.
The Port of Plymouth had a life- boat station as...
Category: Inaugurations