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Four Attempts to Reach Life-Boat

Date: March 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 371

AT 7.15 on the evening of the 26th of November, 1954, the honorary secretary of the Valentia (Co. Kerry) life-boat station, Mr. Kieran O'Driscoll, was informed by Valentia Radio that the motor trawler Ros Airgead was aground on White...

Category: Services

Model Effort:

Date: Winter 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 499

Model effort: this half size replica of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston 44ft Waveney lifeboat Barham took eight months and several hundred man hours to complete and will be used to raise funds for the RNLI by being rented out to fetes and... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Awards to Honorary Workers

Date: February 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 321

Honorary Life-Governor.

Commander HUBERT B. BOOTHBY, D.S.O., R.N.R., chairman of the Littlehampton branch, has been appointed an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recog- nition of the valuable services which he...

Category: Awards

A Helping Nose

Date: Winter 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 507

The Poole HQ's lifeboatman entered into the spirit of Comic Relief day on March 10, when staff braved the heights outside the building to add his distinctive red nose.

The replacement statue was positioned at first... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Tribute to H.R.H. Princess Marina

Date: December 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 426

THE NEWS of the passing of Her Royal Highness Princess Marina, President of the Institution for over 25 years, was received with very real sorrow by all connected with the work of life-saving at sea.

Capt. the Hon. V. M....

Category: Articles

Vagrant

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—On the morning of the 4th of July, 1949, the sailing yacht Vagrant, of Belfast, left Helvick for Bantry against a strong westerly wind, but returned to Dun- garvan Harbour about half-past six in the evening, and...

Laertes

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

Humber, Yorkshire. At 7.35 on the evening of the 25th of August, 1959, a sailing yacht which had just left Spurn was seen to be in difficulties and drifting towards the Admiralty boom. The life-boat City of Bradford III, which was at...

Kunishi

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

FEBRUARY 20TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BARROW, LANCASHIRE. At 12.20 in the morning news was received at Fleetwood lifeboat station from the harbour staff that a trawler was showing distress signals. A north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very...

Robert and Jane

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

DECEMBER 2lST. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.

The fishing coble Robert and Jane, of Newbiggin, with a crew of three, was the only coble to put out on this day, and as the sea rose, with a strong south-south-east wind, anxiety...

Doctor Do-A-Lot

Date: Spring 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 540

As Doctor George Middleton MBE retires as deputy honorary medical adviser (HMA) of St Davids lifeboat, he reflects back on his first service with the station shortly after his appointment as HMA in 1956.

The lifeboat... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs