A 15 year old youth ran up to a group of fishermen by the harbour at Dunbar, East Lothian, and told them that his brother had been washed off the rocks at the harbour entrance.
Coxswain Robert Brunton, who was present with...
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 9.42 on the evening of the 16th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man living in Lerwick had heard on his radio a Norwegian motor fishing vessel asking for help as she was ashore on...
WILL the storm ne'er blow over ? How the blast sweeps by the door! Broader and broader grows the line of white foam around the shore.
I sit cowering by the window, too sick at heart to pray; "Will the great God...
Category: Poetry
THE Belfast branch of the Institution had a stand at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Show on 25th-28th May.
Models of pulling and sailing and motor life-boats were shown, photographs of famous coxswains and wrecks, and items...
Category: Articles
WATCHET, SOMERSE TSHIRE.—Lights were observed to the northward of the harbour, during a strong wind and a heavy sea, early on the morning of the 24th January.
The W. It. G. Kingston Life-boat was launched at 7.30, proceeded...
MARCH 29TH. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. A message was received at Sennen Cove at 7.33 in the morning that a vessel needed help four miles north-north-west of Pedn-men-Dhu. A strong south-south-west wind was blowing and the sea was...
The motor yacht Gramarie (above), known to be lying at Raima, Majorca, in the mid-1960s, was once the Margate, Kent, life-boat ON694 J. P. Proudfoot. She was built in 1924, and in 1940 the crew shown below took her out to rescue P/O Richard... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At 8 A.M. on the 13th December a large barque, which proved to be the Mermaid, of Cardiff, bound from Quebec to Liverpool with a cargo of timber—was seen at anchor just clear of the banks lying at the mouth of the Eibble, and displaying...
THE Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, on this its fortyfourth anniversary, beg to return their hearty thanks to all those who have kindly given them their moral and pecuniary support; and they desire also publicly to...
Category: Annual Reports
On Board The Humber Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs