(Left) Two pensioners from the Royal Hospital Chelsea, Sgt George Wolfe (left) and Sgt Robert Moy (right), persuaded visitors to put more than £4,000 in their collecting boxes at the London Boat Show.. - View image in PDF
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Thank you for your excellent response to our request for your help in selecting the words to include on the RNLI memorial sculpture. Many of you favoured one of the five published quotations, though we also received a good selection of new...
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Mr Robertson Buchan pictured in October with the new Superintendent Coxswain, Mr Neil Morris, in the boat house at Spurn Head just after his retirement. RNLI picture. - View image in PDF
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The last rigid inshore lifeboat in RNLI service was the Boston Whaler A513 Sam and Iris Coles, pictured in action inside Poole Harbour. - View image in PDF
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Atlantic damaged while saving girls trapped in heavy surf under pier For the first time in the history of the RNLI the three-man crew of an Atlantic class lifeboat have been awarded a Silver and two Bronze Medals for a single service. This...
A useful Life- boat service was performed by the Michael Henry Life-boat on the 10th February.
At 10 A.M. information was received that a steam trawler had stranded on the Harbour Bar, and the Life-boat was launched to her...
JUNE 3RD. - DOVER, KENT. During the morning six children belonging to the Dover garrison were cut off by the tide under Shakespeare Cliff. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor boarding boat William Myatt, attached to...
Poole, Dorset.—At nine o'clock on the evening of the 30th of November, 1957, a message was received that the motor vessel Dollard, of Rotterdam, was ashore on Hook Sands and that the master had asked if the life-boat would stand by when...
IN THE DOGHOUSE—One particular boat's crew of the Royal National Life-boat Institution is in dead trouble. It rescued the crew of a cabin cruiser from a dangerous situation—which, of course, was regarded as meritorious and praiseworthy...
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Galway Bay. On the 8th of October, 1958, the Minister of State for Gaelic Affairs arrived at Kilronan with other officials in the island mail steamer with the intention of visiting the neighbour- ing islands by motor boat the next day and...