Buckle offers Following publication of my letter in THE LIFEBOAT of Autumn 1991 which explained I was seeking an RNLI buckle for a leather belt like the one my father used to own, I have been lucky and had a belt and buckle sent to me, as...
Category: Correspondence
Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth.
Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth, died on 31st October at the age of seventy. He had served in the Criccieth Life-boat for some forty years.
From 1890 to 1901 he...
Category: Obituaries
North Sea Hurricane FORCE 9-10 north north east wind; rough sea with a heavy swell; low water; visibility down to about a half to one mile on an overcast morning with frequent hail and snow squalls; Flamborough lifeboat already at sea...
Scotland North Division Cliff face helicopter lift LONOHOPE honorary secretary was informed by the Coastguard at 2352 on December 20, 1974, that the Belgian trawler Lans was ashore on the north side of Tor Ness and required immediate...
Category: Services
FOLLOWING on the Conferences of Hcnorary Secretaries already held at Ijlargate in the South-East of England, at Scarborough and Manchester in the North of England, and in London, a Conference of Honorary Secretaries and workers in South...
Category: Meetings
Heft) Lionel Blair announces the winners and entertains the gathered crowds, (above) Stormy Stan, hereof the RNLI's junior membership scheme. Storm Force, mixes with showbiz.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
SEVEN WALKERS MISSING At 9.40 p.m. on spth October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a party of seven people, walking from Cayton to Filey, were missing. The coastguard asked if the life-boat could help with the search...
BROWSING through earlier issues of THE LIFE-BOAT is always a fascinating occupation.
Recently we have been sent to the files in search of information on the old tubular life-boats, in which several members of the public...
Category: Articles
The first of May 2002 was a very special day for the RNLI, Falmouth lifeboat station and the county of Cornwall. Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, started her Golden Jubilee tour of Great Britain in Cornwall and...
Category: Articles
Launches 33 Lives rescued 14
OCTOBER 3RD. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
At 8.50 at night a message was received from the Southern Railway Company that a small yacht had fired distress signals off the east pier. A...
Category: Services