Ferry good idea! Pictured above are 'Hobblers' - the ferrymen who bring visitors over to St Michaels Mount from Marazion between April and the end of October.
They each carry a lifeboat collection box on board and...
Category: Articles
Friday, 21st August, 1936.
PAID £20,695 3s. 4d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
WE think that the public will be inter- ested to learn something of the way in which the Institution deals with one of the most important branches of the great life-saving work entrusted to it. Few except technicaJ experts can fully realize...
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ISLE OF WHITHORN.—On the 2nd Octo-ber, the smack Swallow was observed off: Borough Head dismasted, and in danger of being driven on the rocks. The Whithorn Life-boat Charlie Peek put off to her assistance, but before she could get near the...
Category: Services
ON 30th October the history of the Institution, during its first hundred years of work, was published under the title " Britain's Life-boats : A Century of Heroic Service." It has been written, at the request of the Committee...
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Capture an image tike this one of Fishguards Trent by Rick Tomlmson and you should be in with a good chance!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
FLEETWOOD.—The schooner Theda, of Carnarvon, bound from Hamburg for Glasson Dock, stranded on the North edge of Sundeiland Bank during hazy weather on the 17th November, and at 11.45 A.M. showed signals of distress.
The...
Lifeboats taking up their moorings on the Thames at the centenary of the RNLI in 1924. - View image in PDF
There were representatives from Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Britain.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
LITTLE DID I THINK some 20 years ago when I started in general practice that I should be in active service for more than a decade as a lifeboat doctor or HMA (honorary medical adviser), as we are called. Years later I asked the now retired...
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Broken Steering Gear ON SEPTEMBER 29, 1973, Second Coxswain Rowley at Scarborough, Yorkshire (the coxswain being away on holiday), was informed at 11.22 p.m. by the duty officer of the lighthouse that red flares had been sighted off the...