The summarised reports on this page concern services for which letters of commendation and thanks from Lt Cmdr Brian Miles, as deputy director/ chief of operations, have been sent to the stations and/or personnel...
Category: Services
THE Institution has received the following gifts from its Crews : — On 23rd July, 1925, the Life-boat at Boulmer, Northumberland, went out to the s.s. Sojourner, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, which had gone ashore in a dense...
Category: Donations
istings ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Oct3 D-536:Oa3 ABERDOVEY B-754:Oc5 B-75ft Sep 12; Nov 28 ABERYSTWYTH B-70*Sepl2.15.20;Nov8 ACHILL ISLAND ON-1240(14-28):Sep30; Oct 12,24.25 AITH ON-1232(17-14):Sep20 ALDE8URCH ON-1184(12-2S)Dec 16 D-52ft Nov...
Category: Services
Galway Bay.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th of December, 1953, the local doctor asked if the life-boat would take him to Inishere Island, to attend a very sick man. who might have to be moved to the main- land. As no other...
AT 2350 ON JUNE 8, 1974, Edwin B.
Brown, an ILB crew member at New Brighton, Merseyside, was told that a fishing boat appeared to be aground on a lee shore in Rock Channel. He telephoned the honorary secretary immediately,...
Who's chicken? Definitely not (I to r) Philip Reiley, Ronnie White, Miles Lindsay, Graham Hardy nor Alan Lindsay, winners of the 1984 Hen Island Challenge Race for home-built craft. The team, all connected with the RNLI at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Seahorse III at Cromer The naming ceremony for the new D class lifeboat was held outside the inshore boathouse despite overcast conditions and the forecast of heavy rain. The chairman introduced John Gamble, representing the sponsors of the...
Category: Articles
St. David's, and Angle, Pembroke- shire.—At 10.25 on the night of the 28th of March, 1952, the St. David's coastguard telephoned the St. David's life-boat station that red flares had been seen eight miles north-west by north of...
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — During the evening of the 30th of May, 1956, the life-boat motor mechanic heard on his private radio that the coaster Bally- clare was ashore on Patterson's Rock.
Although no confirmation...
During an. easterly gale on the 6th March the schooner Oaecilie of Ham- burg was sighted in the offing and she was kept under observation. It was then 2 P.M. and soon after 3 P.M. she stranded at Seaton Point. With all speed the Coxswain and...