The draw for the Burseldon Bug sailing dinghy raffle was made by Ernie Wise. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of David Trotter. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Top Crew member Alan Woods wears the lifeboat's smoke hood in the engine room.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 15th day of March, 1884, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, KG., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
The naming ceremony for the new D class lifeboat was held outside the inshore boathouse despite overcast conditions and the forecast of heavy rain.. - View image in PDF
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East Division Rescue in the surf SILVER MEDAL A CALL CAME THROUGH to Tyne Tees Coastguard at 0101 on the morning of Saturday April 15, 1986, that a disabled fishing vessel, the 60ft La Morlaye, with three men on board, was in danger of going...
Category: Services
Caffeine, alcohol and fizzy drinks were all shunned in favour of water during our new fundraising challenge, H2Only. It was a tough ask for many of our supporters: giving up all drinks except for water for 2 weeks. But they were determined...
Category: Articles
May 1983 Hedley V. Miller, QBE, K st j, who had supported the Institution for more than 60 years, for many of them as a member of Plymouth station branch committee..
Category: Obituaries
Mr. J. G. Oldfield, of Whitehaven, Cumberland, who died in May, was the Honorary Secretary of the Whitehaven Station from 1890 to 1925, when it was closed. Since then he has been the Honorary Treasurer of the Financial Branch. In...
Category: Obituaries
The No. 1 Life-boat, Sisters, on the 9th December, rescued 2 men from the barge Jane, of Eochester, which was disabled, and landed them in safety. It was blowing hard at the time from W..
Three saved from swamped dinghy Members of the Portsmouth lifeboat crew have also received framed letters of thanks from the Chairman of the RNL1 for their sen-ices during an earlier rescue. The helmsman for this service was Steve Alexander...