SEPTEMBER 14TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE.
Red flares had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £9 1s..
SEPTEMBER 28TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
Lights, which might have been from an airman baled out from an aeroplane, had been reported, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £15 17s. 6d..
spirit Incredible journey The RNLI’s Chief Executive spent an especially productive Summer last year. Carol Waterkeyn finds out how A senior manager takes a cycle ride. Quite unremarkable until you realise that the man in question is the...
Category: Articles
Thursday, 8th October, 1931.
Special Meeting.
Sir GODFREY BABINO, Bt., in the Chair.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bfc., Chairman of the Committee of Management, presented to Sir GEORGE-SHEE a Gold...
Category: Committee
THE following regulations are intended for guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the National Shipwreck Insti- tution, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
Category: Articles
Woolacombe, Croyde and Blackpool Sands beaches in Devon have been added this Summer to the 59 others already patrolled by RNLI lifeguards. Visitors to these beaches have already benefited from the eagle-eyed vigilance and professional... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
JULY 24TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported to have come down in the sea. Another aeroplane and a motor boat joined the life-boat in the search, but nothing could be found and no aeroplane was reported as being missing. -...
JUNE 14TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
A light, thought to be a distress signal, had been seen, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £7 4s. 9d..
Demonstrations included the capsize and righting of the RNLI's Atlantic 21 ILB. A British crew righted the boat first and then, after being instructed in the righting drill by Mike Butler of the RNLI Cowes base, a Dutch crew took over... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
AT 4.40 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1954, the honorary secretary of the Newhaven (Sussex) lifeboat station, Mr. R. K. Sayer, was told by the coastguard that the Danish auxiliary schooner Vega was making water and might need...
Category: Services