The motor fishing boat Launch Out left harbour on the morning of the 10th April to haul lines. The weather was bad, and as it gradually got worse, with very heavy seas off the pier, the coxswain decided to launch the motor life-boat...
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure wa» paid out in 1950.
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Without their powerless support boat, two divers found themselves alone in the North Sea ...
The crew of the Humber lifeboat had just returned from a training exercise when they received the...
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Wells, Norfolk.—About 10.0 on the morning of the 4th of July, 1951, a gale sprang up from the north-east and the sea became very rough. Nine local fishing boats were at sea, and it was thought advisable for the life- boat to stand by them....
Lowestoft, Suffolk. — 7th November, 1937. The Finnish steamer Ascania, of. Wiborg, had grounded on the North-East Newcombe Sands, but got off again.—Rewards, £20 18s. 6d..
Cdr Brian Miles, the RNLI's director, is pictured collecting a cheque for £19,443, the result of a competition sponsored by Frizzell Insurance and Financial Services and which appeared in several editions of the Civil Service... - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 21ST. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 2.30 in the morning the life-boat coxswain was out fishing and saw the schooner Trinite', of Gothenburg, ashore on the west point of Brims Ness. She made distress signals, and...
The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and...
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HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother presents the certificate of honorary life governorship to Carl Giles at the presentation of awards meeting on May 15.. - View image in PDF
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At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 21st day of March, 1896, Captain His Royal Highness The DUKE OF YORK, R.N., KG-., in the Chair...
Category: Annual Reports