TENBY H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent. Presi- dent of the Institution, named the new Tenby life-boat Henri) Comber Brown at Tenby on the 2nd of June, 1956, and later went afloat in the life-boat. The life-boat has been built out of legacies from...
Category: Inaugurations
As our readers are aware, it has been the practice of the Institution, from its earliest days, to make substantial grants to the widows and children of the gallant men who have lost their lives "on active service" in the cause of...
Category: Articles
Three yachtsmen saved from Buxey Sands in heavy weather The crew of Clacton's relief Atlantic 21 and Walton and Frinton's Solent lifeboats have received letters of thanks from the RNLI's chief of operations following a joint...
Disaster to the Rye Life-boat.
The Whole Crew Drowned.
THE worst disaster which has fallen on the Life-boat Service for many years occurred on 15th November. It fell with crushing weight on the gallant...
Dover PRINCESS MARINA, Duchess of Kent, the president of the R.N.L.I., named the new Dover life-boat, Faithful Forester, at Dover on 26th July, 1967. The 44-foot steel boat was a gift from the Ancient Order of Foresters - the eighth to be...
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboat station histories On A Wave and A Prayer A History of the Youghal Lifeboat Station by Brendan O'Driscoll published by the author at CIR9.50 The port of Youghal (pronounced 'Yawl') on Ireland's beautiful southern...
Category: Articles
THE Committee of Management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have now for many years had the problem before their mind of the suc- cessful employment of a motor in a Life-boat, so as to assist by mechanical means, and thus relieve...
Category: Articles
The Finest Service of 1928.
Silver Medal Awarded to the Coxswain at New Brighton.
THE Institution has awarded its Silver Medal to Coxswain George Robinson, of New Brighton, on the Mersey, and its Bronze...
RHOSCOLYN, ANGLESEY.—Intelligence reached this Life-boat station on the 8th December that a vessel was in distress in the offing. The Life-boat was quickly got ready and launched and the following report subsequently furnished by the...
Port St. Mary, and Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 11.10 on the morning of the 23rd of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port St. Mary that fire had broken out on the lighthouse on Chickens Rock. It had been...