Appledore, North Devon and Lifeboat 70-001 - Off the Mumbles - At 4.20 p.m. on I3th March, 1967, the Appledore coxswain was informed that the m.v. Stan Woolaway had a bad list and was thought to be sinking at Mort Point. An R T message...
Blackpool, Lancashire. At 6.10 p.m.
on 13th August, 1965, the police notified the honorary secretary that a boy was in difficulties in a small canoe south of central pier. The IRB was at once launched in a moderate...
Two lifeboats on service as high speed passenger ferry runs on to rocksBoth of Jersey's lifeboats, St Heller's Tyne class Alexander Coutanche and St Catherine's Atlantic rigid inflatable Jessie Eliza, were involved in a service...
Yacht ablaze AT 2225 ON THE NIGHT OF Saturday September 8, 1984, Clyde coastguard reported a yacht aground, north of Hunterston power station. Three minutes later the relief Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, William Yeo, ontemporary...
Arun saves yacht and skipper after long tow in severe weatherThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to thank the crews of both the Falmouth and Lizard lifeboats following a service involving both lifeboats on 16 February...
The audience is spell bound during the review of the year film. (Send in your snippets of 2006 for consideration for next year's review to Film and Image Manager Eleanor Driscoll at RNLI Headquarters). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
JULY 30TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
A small sailing yacht with three people on board was reported as missing, but she got in safely. - Rewards, £9 15s. 6d..
AUG. 14TH. - PENLEE, AND COVERACK, CORNWALL. A French trawler had been reported in difficulties off the Lizard, but neither life-boat could find any sign of her. - Rewards : Penlee, £12 1s. ; Coverack, £10 6s..
NOV. 19TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. A motor barge had stranded, but the life-boat found no one on board when she arrived.
Her crew had already got ashore. - Rewards, £20 12s. 6d..
Peter MacDonald Fulton Peter Fulton passed away after a long illness on 6 March 2003, aged 76. Peter, a trainer for ICI and the RNR, created structured training for lifeboat crew vital at a time when recruits increasingly came from...
Category: Obituaries