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Fundraising Five

Date: Summer 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 553

Brighton fundraisers organised a sponsored walk in July and, despite only five participants, raised £700.

The photograph shows the intrepid walkers with the Mayor of Brighton and Hove who has nominated the RNLI as the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

(Top) Visitors Swarm Aboard 17-24,

Date: Summer 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 541

(top) Visitors swarm aboard 17-24, a new Trent class which was un-named at the time but which will become Dora Foster McDougall and be allocated to the relief fleet. Astern of her was the Severn 17-11, The Whiteheads which will be allocated... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Yachts and Pleasure Boats Represent Almost 60% of Lifeboat Launches

Date: Winter 1995

Volume: 53

Issue: 531

Yachts and pleasure boats represent almost 60% of lifeboat launches, so these were the first target for the RNLI's Sea Safety initiative. Even the most well-found vessel can find herself in trouble, but the aim of the initiative is to... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Angle

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE On the 18th December, 1943, the Angle life-boat rescued six of the crew of the motor vessel Thor, of Rotterdam.

COXSWAIN JAMES WATKINS was awarded the silver medal..

Category: Medals

1940

Date: March 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 3

1940 was the busiest year in the history of the Life-boat Service.

Life-boats were launched to the rescue 1081 times. Of these launches 640 were to vessels in distress on account of the war. Life-boats rescued 2056 lives....

Category: Articles

A Ship

Date: January 1858

Volume: 04

Issue: 27

On the 27th November a boat with four men in her was upset in the entrance to Teignmouth harbour, when attempting to board a vessel coming in.

One man succeeded in getting on board the ship, but the boat herself, with two...

Civil Service Life-Boat Fund

Date: February 1906

Volume: 19

Issue: 219

THE Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund was held on the 26th ultimo, and was presided over by the Right Hon. Sir RALPH H. KNOX, K.C.B. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Hon. Secretary, reported that the Fund had continued to...

Category: Meetings

Mount Ida and Vera Creina

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT CROMER OCT. 9TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At 6.25 in the morning the Cromer coxswain learned through the Humber radio and the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore on Haisborough Sands, thirteen miles...

Rescue from Swedish Vessel Near Cliffs

Date: June 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 380

AT 1.40 on the afternoon of the 26th cf December, 1956, the honorary secretary of the Lerwick, Shetland Isles, life-boat station, Mr. P. Bruce Laurenson, learnt from the coastguard that the Swedish motor vessel Samba was drifting 122 miles...

Category: Services

Ceremonies

Date: Spring 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 508

- Tyne class Mary The little town of Portpatrick, situated on the south western edge of Scotland, provided a picturesque setting for the naming ceremony of its new 47ft Tyne class lifeboat Mary Irene Millar on Friday, 19 May...

Category: Inaugurations