All that remained of the 19ft Sum Speed after she caught fire on the River Orwell in Suffolk. Both of Harwich's lifeboats were called to the scene and the photograph was taken from the lifeboat by the crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Peter Kenny - former Arklow lifeboat station Coxswain and Crew Member.
Category: Obituaries
MAY 10TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A steamer had struck a mine, but the eight survivors of her crew of fourteen were landed by two boats which had put out from Withernsea. - Paid permanent crew..
Captain Sir George Barnard, of Hutton, Essex, who as Deputy Master of Trinity House, was an ex-qfficio member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I., is to remain on the Committee..
Category: Committee
Three anglers were about a mile out to sea in a 5m pleasureboat in Hartlepool Bay on Sunday 21 September. With their fishing rods poised for a bite, they were hoping for a good catch.
But their mood changed when the wind...
Category: Articles
Support for the American!British Lifeboat Appeal is growing on both sides of the Atlantic. In New York last September, after a Silver Jubilee performance by the Band of the Grenadier Guards and the Pipes and Drums of the Scots Guards, a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
EACH NEW YEAR, during the Boat Show at Earls Court, the boating industry gives most generous recognition and support to the lifeboat service. Among the eminent people who have been invited to open the show in past years— who include Prince...
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0 A new base for Scotland The new combined Scotland divisional base and regional office was officially opened on 7 March 2002 by HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI. The move was planned some two years ago when...
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