Douglas Bay as Sir William Hillary would have known it: 1823 print shows St Mary's Rock before Tower of Refuge was built.
by courtesy of the Manx Museum.
Category: Drawings
The Lamorna ashore at Christchurch. Her crew of fourteen had been rescued near The Needles by the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight life-boat (See page 308). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News ‘A treasure trove!’ This is just one glowing comment from a visitor to the RNLI’s new Henry Blogg museum in Cromer – and now ‘official’ accolades have followed.
The building's contemporary design follows the curve...
Category: Articles
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Lone Star, with one man on board, was twenty-four hours overdue from...
oar'd the rolling billows, Surging waves rose high o'erhead ; Helpless in that hour of danger, On the gallant vessel sped.
Sails were riven,—masts were broken By the tempest's fearful power; Fruitless seemed...
Category: Poetry
Valentia, and Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 4.30 in the morning, on the 1st of August, 1950, the Valentia life-boat authorities received a telephone message from the Dingle Civic Guard. The local motor fishing vessel Ocean Star, with a crew of two,...
TIME OF THE ESSENCE AS TOW IS PASSED Eight saved from yacht dismasted and close to rocks in onshore gale The coxswain of Blyth lifeboat, Keith Barnard, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving the lives...
Category: Services
Each year's Annual Presentation of Awards provides an opportunity for an informal discussion on some of the medal services, the lifeboats involved and other aspects of lifeboat work. The day after the presentation of the medals in London...
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IT WAS QUIPS AND LAUGHTER all the way when Paul Daniels, comedian and conjuror, drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's ninth national lottery at Poole HQ on Thursday July 31. The draw was supervised by Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a...
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HM The Queen, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and HRH The Duke Kent with 237 representatives of lifeboat stations. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs