North Sunderland, and Holy Island, Northumberland. At midday on the 17th November, 1962. the North Sunderland coxswain, in the absence of the honorary secretary, told the coastguard that he felt anxious about the fishing vessel Faithful,...
US Coast-Guard Cutter on the International Ice Patrol. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
.... received by way of exchange, a box of chocolates. Alison, whose obvious surprise and delight caught the photographer's attention, is the daughter of a member of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund's executive committee.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 170, 181 and 194, the following launches on service were made during the months of March to May, 1966, inclusive: Aberystwyth,...
Category: Services
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The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 11.45 in the morning the life-boat coxswain, while on the pier at Lytham, saw a sailing yacht coming up the river with her mast and sail overboard. A strong easterly wind was blowing, with a...
THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is a charitable institution, incorporated by Royal Charter, for the purpose of saving life from shipwreck.
As however a rigid adherence to the precise object of the Institution...
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Waves stop play - and an apt destination Minehead's D class lifeboat carried out a service on 23 July which saved two people and their yacht in difficult condition, but which was somewhat overshadowed in press reports by the interruption...
DECEMBER 6TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A seaplane had been reported down in the sea, but was later reported to be safe. While searching for her, the lifeboat found a barrage balloon partly deflated, but in the heavy...