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Whilst reading the winter 1999/00 issue of the lifeboat, I came across the piece about the refurbished lifeboat Queen Victoria which was said to be thought as the oldest RNLI lifeboat in existence.
It is not the oldest boat...
Category: Correspondence
Lifeboats In Action
Rescue against the clock Drifting closer to a rocky shore minute by minute, the yacht Headstrong needed help to survive the night. But would the Plymouth lifeboat reach them in time?Hampered by fishing gear around her propeller, Headstrong...
Category: Services
Annual Meeting
THE ninety-first Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Council Chamber at the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, April 21st, 1915, at 3.30 p.m. The Right Hon.
Walter...
Category: Meetings
The Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat Fighting Her Way Out
The Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat Fighting Her Way Out. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Athelduchess (1)
AUGUST 21ST. - ST. DAVID’S, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Late on the night of the 20th August, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore inside the south-east rocks of the Smalls off the coast of Pembrokeshire.
She was the...
(Below) Miss Sylvia Clarke Names the Relief Fleet D Class Lifeboat Sea Ranger
(below) Miss Sylvia Clarke names the relief fleet D class lifeboat Sea Ranger under the watchful eye of Anthony Oliver, the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ernest and Mabel With the Model Version Floating Alongside.
The Ernest and Mabel with the model version floating alongside.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
West Division Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at...
Category: Services