Filey, Yorkshire.—As darkness was gathering on the evening of the 26th of September, 1949, there was some anxiety felt for the safety of the fishing coble Mary which, with a crew of three, had been due in at noon. At 7.25 the life-boat The...
JANUARY 5TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 12.50 A.M. news was received through the coastguard that an S.O.S. had been sent out by the Union Castle Line steamer Rothesay Castle. She was a vessel of over 7,000 tons and bound from New York to...
AT the annual meeting of the Committee, held on the 10th Jan., at the General Post Office, the Honorary Secretary, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, F.R.G.S., reported that the Fund had experi- enced more than usual prosperity during the past year,...
Category: Meetings
Coxswain Peter Bisson of St Peter Port joined the lifeboat crew in 1980 and became second coxswain in 1984 before being appointed coxswain in 1986. Together with his fellow crew members he was awarded a bronze medal in 1981 for the rescue of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 5.53 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1951, a resident at Waterwynch report- ed to the coastguard that a rowing boat seemed to be in difficulties in Water- wynch Bay. A later message made it two rowing boats. At...
Honorary Life-Governor.
Commander HUBERT B. BOOTHBY, D.S.O., R.N.R., chairman of the Littlehampton branch, has been appointed an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recog- nition of the valuable services which he...
Category: Awards
AT 4.58 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1954, the Hartland coastguard rang up the Clovelly life-boat station with the news that the motor ketch Progress, of Bideford, was in distress under the lee of Lundy Island. The trawler Hosanna...
Category: Services
YACHT FOUND WITH HEAVY LIST Margate, Kent. At 5.48 on the evening of Wednesday the 4th September, 1963, the coastguard passed an anticipatory message to the coxswain stating a sailing yacht was nearing the northwest Margate Sands, about...
It was the last Annual General Meeting for our Chairman, but the event was also a day of firsts as RNLI supporters and staff came together at a new venue
On 19 May, after 12 years at the Barbican in London, the AGM came...
Category: Articles
Six survivors snatched from yacht in Force 9 gale and heavy seas A service to a 50ft yacht by St Peter Port's Arun class lifeboat Sir William Arnold in atrocious weather conditions resulted in media headlines throughout the country - and...