IN 1947 the Institution held 817 flag days. The number of people who gave was 7,545,000, and the sum given was £93,503..
Category: Donations
The U.S. Coast Guard are to be hosts on the occasion of the Eleventh International Life-boat Conference in America in 1971..
Category: Meetings
The annual meeting of the R.N.L.I. will take place at the Central Hall, Westminster, on 25th March, 1969, at 3 p.m..
Category: Meetings
APRIL 1991 W, Softley, the last surviving crew member of the Brancaster lifeboat, the station having closed in 1935..
Category: Obituaries
Right: the RNLI's Anthony Oliver helps Mrs Peggy Heriot of the Craft Club draw the winning tickets.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
AT the annual meeting of the committee of this Fund, held on the 19th January last, and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, Controller-General of Inland Revenue, it was reported by Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, that during...
Category: Meetings
It was around this time last year that the Oban lifeboat crew saved the life of an unconscious man who was trapped in icy waters between two fishing vessels in Oban harbour (see winter 2001/02 issue, p.18). The crew's pagers went off...
Category: Articles
At 11.5 p.m. on 23rd August, 1967, the coastguard stated that the police had reported that four flares had been seen south of Black Rock, Brighton. The lifeboat Kathleen Mary was launched at 11.15 in a light variable wind and a smooth sea....
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 5.50 in the morning of the 28th of September, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a ship between North Foreland and Broadstairs, making for Ramsgate, had signalled by lamp that water was entering her engine room and...
WINTERTON.—The No.' 2 Life-boat Husland was launched at 11 o'clock on the night of the 4th October, in response to signals of distress shown by the brig Catherine, of Whitby, bound from Portsmouth for Sunderland, which -was...