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Asia
The Humber, and Bridlington, Yorkshire.
—26th August, 1939. Rockets hadbeen seen, but the life-boats could find nothing. On her way back the Humber life-boat found the small racing yacht Asia, of Brough, which had lost her...
An Aeroplane (66)
AUGUST 7TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 5.20 in the morning the lifeboat watchman saw a large bombing aeroplane come down on fire near the gate vessel.The sea was ablaze with burning petrol. The coxswain rang up the Royal...
Riders of the storm – the story of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Riders of the storm – the story of the Royal National
Lifeboat Institution
by Ian Cameron
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
This is a new edition of the hardback book published in...
Category: Articles
Not Content With Just the Ordinary Duties of a Lifeboat Crew
Not content with just the ordinary duties of a lifeboat crew, the men from Salcombe have proved themselves to be as much of a fund-raising team as they are a lifesaving team. Last year, through the crew's efforts alone, £4,267 was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yacht (3)
THREE SAVED FROM YACHT IN GALE Humber, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the morning of Sunday the 18th of August, 1963,the Spurn Point coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that a yacht on passage from Spurn to Bridlington was overdue....
Pictured Below L-R: Tower Pier Lifeboat Crew Members Kaverne Bailey (23), Michael 'Fester' Sinacola (38) and Ian Barnaby (44)
Pictured below L-R: Tower Pier lifeboat Crew Members Kaverne Bailey (23), Michael 'Fester' Sinacola (38) and Ian Barnaby (44) Pictured right and bottom right: Bill Callaghan is a yeoman at the Tower of London - and a volunteer at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Top) the relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher dominates the area around the RNLI stand.
(Top) The relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher dominates the area around the RNLI stand. The wooden slipway and 'boathouse' can be seen in the background. - View image in PDF
Photo Mike Anker, Take 2. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lytham-St.Anne's Lifeboat City of Bradford III Shortly Before She Set Out at 1535 on June 6 1981
Lytham-St Anne's lifeboat City of Bradford III shortly before she set out at 1535 on June 6, 1981, to go to the help of the yacht Morag in difficulties off South Shore. Blackpool.
photograph by courtesy of David Forshaw... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Joseph Ibbitson (Centre) Aboard the Padstow Lifeboat With Three of the Coastguards Who Rescued Him and Coxswain Trevor England (Right)
Joseph Ibbitson (centre) aboard the Padstow lifeboat with three of the coastguards who rescued him, and coxswain Trevor England (right). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs