IT will be in the memory of our readers that the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION issued a special appeal last year for funds and increased permanent support. They pointed out that, while each year the efficiency of...
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IN pointing out at the annual meeting in London on 8th April, 1970, that the operational record of the life-boat and inshore rescue boat crews had been a triumphant one, the Chairman of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, Admiral Sir...
Category: Meetings
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
The lifeboat ale even comes highly recommended by 'The Sheep' who is Head Mower at the Aldeburgh lifeboat station garden!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Swanage, Dorset.—At 4.30 A.M. on the 4th July the coastguard reported that a vessel five miles west of Portland Bill was firing rockets. A strong breeze to moderate gale was blowing from the S.W., with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat...
Berwick - Mersey class Joy and Charles Beeby Berwick might be in England - just - but when the day dawned for the town's new Mersey class lifeboat to be named, on 23 March 1993, it was as braw a morning as any in Scotland. The...
Category: Inaugurations
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire March 16 and 19 Aldeburgh, Suffolk May 7 Amble, Northumberland May 7 Anstruther, Fife May 18 Arbroath, Angus March 18 Arklow, Co. Wicklow April 7 Baltimore, Co. Cork May 30 Barry Dock, South Glamorgan March 20 (twice)...
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At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 15th day of March, 1884, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, KG., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
HM The Queen Mother's 100th birthday paradethought it was a wonderful day I was delighted to be involved ' Peter Woolhouse, Volunteer Fundraiser Lifeboatmen and women from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland helped to make...
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