Matt Horton and Ed Stevens on Weymouth'sArancia rescue boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
IN April, 1926, the Institution awarded its gold badge, given only for dis- tinguished honorary services, to Miss Hannah Denham. She had then been for many years a bed-ridden cripple in the incurable ward at the Westminster Hospital. She was...
Category: Obituaries
[The following letter, which was published in Yaching Monthly, is reproduced by courtesy of the editor.] SIR, During a recent talk given to our members by a representative of the R.N.L.I., it appeared that, in our district at any rate, the...
Category: Correspondence
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 7.40 on the evening of the 1st of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Russian trawler was due to arrive off Stornoway about one o'clock in the morning with a sick woman on board who...
Close to Mount Cook, New Zealand, stands a R.N.L.I. collecting box framed by a life-belt.
It has been placed there by Mr. Duncan Darroch, a landscape artist who has a cabin nearby.
Considerable sums... - View image in PDF
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HAVLE, CORNWALL.-—The brigantine Glynn, of Plymouth, while running for Hayle, during a strong N.W. gale and a heavy sea, on the morning of the llth September, struck the bar and remained fast, the sea making a clean breach over her. The crew...
In the forenoon of the 9th March, the schooner Cairnduna, of Thurso, bound from Dundee to Sunder- land, was driven ashore on the strand below Bamborough Castle, about five miles from the Life-boat Station at North Sim- derland. The Life-boat...
At 1.30 P.M.
| on the 1st January during moderately i rough weather Acting Coxswain Culham I received a message stating that a barge appeared to be in difficulties. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 at once...
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 5.45 A.M. the naval author-ities at Cromer asked for the life-boat to go out, as an aeroplane was in the sea between Sheringham and Blakeney. A light westerly wind was blowing, the...
On the 31st of January, 1953, the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria sank in a gale in the Irish Sea.
The Portpatrick, Donaghadee, Clou- ghey and Newcastle, Co. Down, life- boats were all launched on service.