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Cover Picture

Date: Summer 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 505

by Dave Trotter The new Mersey class 12-002, to be named Sealink Endeavour, makes her public debut at a special press day at Hastings during July. She is to be stationed at Hastings once operational trials are... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

British Triumph

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

FEBRUARY 13TH . - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At 12.40 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a ship’s boat was drifting five to six miles off Cromer. A northeast wind was blowing, with a moderate...

Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar

Date: October 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 347

THIS year there will again be a Christmas card and pocket calendar for sale.

The card is of eight pages with the Institution's crest embossed on the outside. Inside are Christmas greetings and the above picture of a...

Category: Advertisement

A Vessel (24)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JULY 2ND. - EXMOUTH, AND TORBAY, DEVON. A vessel had been reported on fire six miles S.E by S. of Berry Head, but the Torbay life-boat could find nothing. Next day the life-boats at Exmouth and Torbay were launched to a vessel reported to be...

Our Johanna

Date: Summer 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 561

All-night rescue of trawler and crew While others enjoyed a Saturday night out on the evening of 6 April 2002, the five-man crew of the fishing vessel Our Johanna were drifting, powerless, in heavy seasIt was shortly before 10pm that her...

Scottish Divisional and Regional Staff

Date: Winter 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 559

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 it was realised that both the existing premises... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Dayspring

Date: August 1881

Volume: 11

Issue: 121

DUNCANNON, WATEHFORD HARBOUR.— On the 3rd March, at about 1.15 P.M., a vessel was seen to be striking heavily on the Bar. The Life-boat Richard and Ann Warner was got out, but owing to the state of the tide, and to the wind being in a S.S.E....

A Sailing Boat

Date: December 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 348

Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, and Anstruther,, Fifeshire.—At 7.30 in the evening of the 26th of September, 1948, the Musselburgh police telephoned to the Dunbar life-boat station that a sailing boat with five boys on board had been driven out to...

Dagenite Batteries Ltd

Date: January 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 430

LIFEBOATS DEMAND THE DEPENDABILITY OF DAGENITE So does your car. Make sure you choose a Dagenite Easifil-it means what it says. Dagenite Batteries are used extensively by the R.N.L.I.

They don't take...

Category: Advertisement

Rescue Party Rescued

Date: Spring 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 520

Rescue party rescued Weymouth's Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell, a naval helicopter and the destroyer HMS Edinburgh were all involved in an incident where three fishermen were airlifted to safety from their sinking trawler Dunlin on... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs