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Rnli News
Open Days The Open Days at the RNLI's Poole Headquarters and Depot, which were postponed from last year due to building work, have been scheduled for August.
Both sites, including the new building, will be open on...
Category: Articles
Annual Report. 1910
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, The'Eight Honourable the EARL OF CREWE, K.G., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
(Above) Rnlb Shoreline Is Named and Lt Alan Late Divisional Inspector {North East) Leads Three Cheers for Sir Alec Rose
(Above) RNLB Shoreline is named . . . and Lt Alan late, divisional inspector {North East) leads three cheers for Sir Alec Rose.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Porta Coeli
WHITSTABLE, October 27, 1987: the station's Atlantic 21 shepherds the yacht Porta Coeli into harbour after she had fired distress flares, drifting near the Spaniard buoy. She had suffered engine failure and her lone occupant had been in...
Letters
Dear Editor, Scanning the letters page of the summer 2005 issue of the Lifeboat, my eye was caught by the small photograph of the Selsey lifeboat towing a cabin cruiser. Though the doctored picture featuring fearless towrope-walker Max...
Category: Correspondence
Listings
Naming ceremonies Henry Alston Hewatai Mallaig Mallaig's new all-weather Severn class lifeboat was named after the father of Catherine Hewat of Glasgow, who funded the majority of the £1,8m lifeboat with a bequest in excess of £...
Category: Articles
Degree
Life-boat 40-001 at Sheerness, Kent - At 4.10 p.m. on 26th April, 1969, while returning from exercise in a strong south westerly wind with a moderate sea, the life-boat saw a yacht sailing towards Garrison point in a dangerous position close...
Luncheon Clubs
LUNCHEON CLUBS associated with the Life-boat Service have become increasingly popular in recent years in Yorkshire. The first ladies' life-boat luncheon club was established at Leeds, and there are now similar clubs in Bradford,...
Category: Articles
FROM OARS TO WATERJETS
What has a 25-knot all-weather craft powered with waterjets got in common with a £300 wooden boat with 10 oars? They’re both fundraising targets set by The Lifeboat Fund – the UK civil service charity set up in aid of the RNLI. When the...
Category: Articles
A Meteor Aeroplane (1)
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Aberyst- wyth, Cardiganshire, Barmouth, Meri- onethshire, and Pwllheli, Caernarvon- shire.
At 3.19 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1952, the Fishguard coast- guard telephoned to the Fishguard...