IT is with the greatest regret that we have to record the death of Mr. H.
Fineham, I.S.O., who was Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund from February 1906 to June 1914. Mr. Fincham, who was inspired with...
Category: Obituaries
22 May 1999 - More than 400 people braved force 7 winds to take part in a double celebration at Blackpool when RNLI Chairman, David Acland, using 175th Anniversary Ale, christened the station's new Atlantic 75, Bickerstaffe, in memory of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
WHITBY AND UPGANG.—The NATIONAL LITE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded two new Life-boats to these stations, in the place of other boats. Both boats are 32 feet long and 7£ feet wide, and row 10 oars "double-banked. The Whitby Life-...
Category: Articles
BIyth, Northumberland; Dunbar,'Haddingtonshire ; Buckie, Banffshire ; Lerwick, Shetland.—27th-31st January. The Russian steamer Irtysch, while bound from West Hartlepool to Leningrad had run into a severe gale and been driven north. She...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At midnight on the 1st of August, 1957, the police telephoned to say that the motor launch Golden Galleon had not returned from a plea- sure cruise up the river. There were 180 passengers on board. The...
Mr. J. P. Morris, of Coventry, who is a member of the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society, was quick to spot an inaccuracy in the caption to the photograph of the Workington life-boat which appeared on page 493 of the December, 1968, issue Of...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
RNLI lifeboat crews were responsible for rescuing 6,326 people during 2000.
This continues the extremely encouraging decline in numbers that has been seen over the past few years: real evidence that sea safety messages are...
Category: Articles
By COUNT KOZO YOSHII, President of Teikoku Suinan Kinsaikai (the Imperial Japanese Life-boat Society).[Count Kozo Yoshii represented the Imperial Japanese Life-boat Society at the International Life-boat Conference held in London, in July of...
Category: Articles
DECEMBER 10TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.
An object had been seen, but it was found to be a large tree. The crew did not wish to be rewarded..