DOVER: OCTOBER 30, 1979 IT WAS PARTICULARLY FITTING that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother should agree to visit Dover to name the new lifeboat, for she is not only a Patron of the RNLI, but earlier last year she was installed as...
Category: Inaugurations
THE fishermen round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland play, as may naturally be supposed, the most important part in manning the fleet of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and it is of course to their co-operation that the...
Category: Articles
The Bight Hon. The EARL OF SELBORNE, P.O., First Lord of the Admiralty, IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Right Hon. The EARL OF SELBORNE, P.O.
Seconded by Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P.
be...
Category: Meetings
BY the death on 4th October, at the age of seventy-three, of Sir Frederick Money- penny, Bt., C.V.O., C.B.E., City Cham- berlain of Belfast and Private Secretary to the Lord Mayor, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most generous...
Category: Obituaries
Crew member Robbie Maiden spent 35 minutes in the water after being swept overboard from The Scout. - View image in PDF
The damage to the Waveney's mast and communications equipment is obvious.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
FEBRUARY 29TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 2.45 P.M. the armed patrol yacht Boyne Water, which was anchored in St. Tudwalls Roads, signalled for a doctor, and Dr. Lloyd Hughes, of Abersoch, asked the life-boat to take...
Main photo bottom - After the flotilla, the Queen Victoria and her carriage are hitched to a team of Suffolk Punch horses before being paraded along the Quay.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dunmore East: Silver medallist Coxswain Stephen Whittle and his crew aboard the new 44' Waveney class lifeboat St Patrick.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St Abbs crew trusted each other with their lives in an outstandingly gallant rescue
‘This was something you can’t train for and something we’d never seen before. The decisions we made had to be...
Category: Articles
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. — Shortly after seven in the morning of the 28th of July, 1949, the motor trawler Baile na n Gall was seen drifting- off Helvick Head near a rocky shore, and flying distress signals. She was known...