The following were among those honoured by the Queen in the Birthday Honours- C.B.E.
Aid. J. T. Fletcher, of Aislaby, Yorkshire (chairman of the Redcar branch).
O.B.E.
Lady Traherne,...
Category: Awards
The biggest single donation ever received by Port Talbot branch from the efforts of a single person is handed over by Philip Reed, a long distance swimmer. Last September he swam across Swansea Bav from Mumbles Head to Porthcawl, a distance... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The immaculate appearance of lifeboats is no accident, and reflects the pride of a lifeboat station in its boat.
However that glossy finish on the hull has to be put there in the first place, and this is another instance of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mayor of Poole picks the winners Councillor Bill Wratham, the Mayor of Poole, (pictured left with David Brann, RNLI Marketing Manager) dropped by RNLI Headquarters in April to draw the winning tickets of the 89th national lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Deaths Raymond Baxter – broadcaster, yachtsman, former member of the RNLI Public Relations Advisory Committee and Guest of Honour at the 1976 Annual Presentation of Awards Kathleen Castle – lifelong fundraiser and wife of former Port Isaac...
Category: Obituaries
ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL On the 7th December, 1940, the Arranmore life-boat rescued the eighteen survivors of the S.S. Stolwijk, of Rotterdam.
COXSWAIN JOHN BOYLE was awarded the gold medal.
MOTOR MECHANIC...
Category: Medals
JULY 15TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 2.15 A.M. the KinnairdHead coastguard reported a vessel ashore, firing signals of distress, a quarter of a mile west of Cairnbulg lookout. A light N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a...
CROMER, NORFOLK On the 6th August, 1941, the Cromer life-boats rescued sixteen of the crew of the S.S. Oxshott, thirty-one of the crew of the S.S. Gallois, nineteen of the crew of the S.S. Deerwood, twenty-two of the crew of the S.S. Paddy...
Category: Medals
At 11 A.M. on the 26th Feb- ruary, during a strong gale at E., the schooner Tantivy, of Wicklow, bound from Liverpool to Wicklow, was forced ashore on the strand north of Howth Harbour.
Immediately on striking, heavy seas...
NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, and FORMBY, LANCASHIRE.—On the night of the 16th March a vessel was observed on " Taylor's Bank," and in response to a telephone message the steam Life-boat Queen was sent to her assistance. She found...