Galway Bay. At 10.50 p.m. on i ith August, 1965, the local doctor asked for use of the life-boat to take an elderly man to the mainland for hospital treatment. As no other boat was available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her...
FOR WESTON-SUPER-MARE station branch last August 21 was a day of double celebration because 1982 was its centenary year and also a new D class inflatable lifeboat, donated by Farnham branch, had come on station. So, at 7.30 that Saturday... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Most of the RNLI’s UK supporters boost their donations by using Gift Aid, which allows the charity to claim back the basic rate tax that donors have already paid on donations. This brings in a very large amount indeed (about £4M...
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The Busiest Year for Nineteen Years.
THE year 1935 was for the life-boat service the busiest for nineteen years.
There were 378 launches of life-boats to vessels in distress. To find a larger number one...
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AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 15th day of March, 1860, Rear-Admiral the Right Hon. Earl of SHREWSBURY and TALBOT, C.B., V.P., in the Chair, the following Report...
Category: Annual Reports
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House on Thursday, the 23rd day of March, 1882, The Eight Hon. The LORD MAYOR of LONDON in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was...
Category: Annual Reports
IN his speech at the Annual General Meeting the American Ambassador referred to the war services of the Life-boats to American vessels, and spoke of the 200 Americans who, during •the war and the first year of peace, owed their lives to the...
Category: Services
South Eastern Division Capsized yacht WHILE CROSS CHANNEL FERRY Viking Venturer was entering the Needles Channel on Monday evening July 3 she reported at 2002 the sighting of a capsized and semi-sunken yacht five cables south of Bridge Buoy....
Category: Services
Sport diver and RNLI supporter Brian Minehane gets bitten by the maritime archaeology bug thanks to a sunken antique lifeboat …
I am an Irishman from Dublin, born in Kent, England, and who now...
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Thursday, 10th November, 1932.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., followed by the Hon. GEORGE COLVIIXE, in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contribution :— Ancient Order of Foresters £ ...
Category: Committee