DEC. 24TH. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. Three men in a motor boat left Ramsgate to go and see the Mahratta wreck and had not returned. The Ramsgate life-boat searched throughout the night and again on Christmas morning and the Walmer...
Lifeboat Press Officer,
Douglas Lifeboat Station
How did you first get involved with the RNLI?
I’m a hobby wildlife photographer, and my son was on the crew as deputy second coxswain. The press officer left...
Category: Articles
Reproduction of the Portrait of a Famous Coxswain.
THE Institution is preparing a Life-boat Calendar for 1931, which will be ready in November. In previous years the calendars have consisted of reproduc- tions of paintings...
Category: Advertisement
On the closing of the St. Andrews life-boat station the following awards have been made: DAVID FENTON, 8 years coxswain, 9f years bowman and 22J vears a member of the crew, the COXSYVAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE and a...
Category: Awards
Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Poole Lifeboat station was informed by Portland RHQ at 0750 on Tuesday, August 23 that a Dutch warship had reported a 25' yacht, Lucy, with a broken rudder 23 miles south of Anvil...
Union Crystal sinks JUST BEFORE 1915 on Wednesday, November 16, 1977, the honorary secretaries of both Sennen Cove and St Ives lifeboat stations were informed by Lands End Coastguard that the 499-ton coaster Union Crystal was in trouble 12...
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 19th day of March, 1857, His Grace the DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., F.R.S., in the Chair, The following Report of the Committee...
Category: Annual Reports
Scotland South Division Breeches buoy rescue TWO PEOPLE IN DANGER, stranded on a rock at the mouth of the River Dee, were reported to the deputy launching authority of Kirkcudbright lifeboat station by Ardrossan Coastguard at 1321 on Sunday,...
Category: Services
• A new, updated version of Gillian Howie and Gillian Zealand's history of Arbroath's lifeboats May 1982 has been compiled by Alasdair M. Sutherland, himself a crew member. With the aid of photographic illustrations Arbroath Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Home made raft TWO YOUTHS, aged 15 and 17 launched a home made raft from the slipway at Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire, at about 1510 on Sunday June 10. 1979.
It was nearly high water and a moderate breeze was...