CAPTAIN RICHARD LLOYD HAMER, D.S.O., R.N., who died on the 16th of December, 1951, at the age of 67, was for twenty years in the service of the Institution. When he came to it in 1925, he had served for many years, before and during the war...
Category: Obituaries
Lives 1918. saved, w Jan. 29. S.S. Butetown, of London. Mevagissey Motor Fishing-boat saved ... 21 w Feb. 4. A Seaplane. Dungeness Motor Fishing-boat saved 2 w ,, 11. S.S. Baku Standard. Gourdon Motor Fishing-boat...
Category: Services
Thursday, 20th March, 1930.
THE HON. GEORGE COLVTLLE, in the Chair.
Decided to open a Life-boat Station at Lerwick, Shetland Isles.
Reported the receipt of the following special...
Category: Committee
BUCKIE.—At 9 A.M. on the 7th Aug. last a pilot-boat put off to bring the schooner Sen Aigen, coal laden from Sunderland, into the harbour during a strong gale from the N.W. and a rough sea. The pilot boarded the vessel and the boat proceeded...
Category: Services
Thursday, 17th January, 1929.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Decided to forward to the South Holland Life-boat Society a message expressing regret and sympathy in connexion with the loss of the...
Category: Committee
Thursday, llth February, 1937.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir HENRY F.
OLIVER in the chair.
Resolved that the respectful thanks of the Institution be conveyed to Her Majesty the Queen for her...
Category: Committee
The Queen Mother (then Duchess of York) in 1926 at the naming ceremony of the Watson Motor lifeboat John Russell at Montrose, one of the oldest RNLI lifeboat stations.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Thursday, 2nd April, 1914.
The rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., was unanimously elected Chairman, and Sir JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., Deputy Chairman, of the Committee of Management of the Institution...
Category: Committee
BALLYCOTTON,CO. COEK.—At about 4.30 P.M. on the 28th January, 1883, the barque Argo, of Sunderland, was sighted off Bally- cotton, making for Cork harbour, close- hauled, the wind then blowing very hard from the S.S.W., with heavy rain. On...
Category: Services
THE annual meeting of the Governors of the Royal National Life-boat Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 26th of March, 1957. The Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, was in the...
Category: Meetings