A beautiful day broke the pattern of continuous rain on 19 October for the 250 people attending the naming ceremony of Rye Harbour's new lifeboat and boathouse.
The new Atlantic 75 lifeboat (pictured right), Commander... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 1.25 p.m. on 3ist March, 1967, the m.v.
Summer Isle reported that she wished to hand over a body which had been recovered from the sea. She was making for Nab tower. The life-boat Jesse Lumb...
Making RNLI history work for the futureHeritage is very important to the RNLI. It's not just about having a collection of lifeboats and equipment from yesteryear, it is also about social history. Over the years the RNLI has amassed a...
Category: Articles
Freelance journalist Moira Kerr has donated £300 of her prize money to Oban RNLI, having scooped the title of ‘Diageo Journalist
of the Year’ in the annual Highlands and Islands Media Awards. Moira’s donation could cover the...
Category: Articles
Yacht sailed to safety by Atlantic 21 crew member Lymington - South East DivisionLymington's Atlantic 21 lifeboat Frank and Mary Atkinson had to put a crew member aboard a yacht off the Shingles Bank during the strong winds of the late...
RAMSGATE and BROADSTAIRS.—On the morning of the 22nd October the Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the harbour steam-tug Aid, and the Broadstairs Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins, proceeded to the Goodwin Sands in reply to signals of...
SEPT. 10TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
While bound for Newcastle the S.S. Magdapur, of Liverpool, a vessel of 8,640 tons, carrying a crew of eighty, was sunk by a U-boat off Aldeburgh. Information reached the lifeboat station...
PORTMAGEE, Co. KERRY. On the morning of the 13th of June, 1944, the 35-feet motor fishing boat Naomh Moibhi, of Dingle, was at anchor at Portmagee, sheltering from the weather. A west-north-west gale was blowing, with high seas. The Valentia...
Category: Services
FIVE life-boats at stations as far apart as Sunderland and Shoreham Harbour were named during the last quarter. On the 4th of July at Sunderland a life-boat provided out of a legacy left by Miss Emily Myers was named. Mr. R. Cyril Thompson,...
Category: Inaugurations
LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS, and WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.—Information wa received from Duncansby Head Light- house, through the Wick Coastguard, at about 2.30 A.M. on the 12th March, that a vessel was ashore at Duncansby Head.
A strong...