With five motor fishing vessels preparing to try to enter harbour in an easterly gale and very rough seas, Scarborough lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Amelia, launched at 1426 on March 18 and stood by at the entrance. Coastguards stood by on the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Bronze Medal Service by the Torbay Motor Life-boat.
ON the night of 30th December, 1935, the motor life-boat at Torbay carried out a service which showed in a striking way the value of wireless in life-boat...
Category: Services
Each issue we share with you stories of courageous rescues by our lifesavers, but this last year we’ve been hearing from you too. Thanks to our Respect the Water campaign, there has been a different kind of rescue happening around our coasts...
Category: Articles
For which Rewards were given at the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Dooey, Co. Donegal.—The institution awarded its thanks inscribed on vellum and £2 to each of two men, Mr. John...
Category: Services
At a time when many people are exchanging New Year wishes, what would your message to our volunteer crews be?
As part of an appeal to raise funds for two new Shannon class lifeboats and launching equipment, supporters are...
Category: Articles
AFFINITY WITH The Royal Bank Qf Scot,and p,c DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? y* The Rpy?l Bank If you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to fund the RNLI with every transaction you...
Category: Advertisement
ON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23 STORNOWAY'S NEW 52FT ARUN LIFEBOAT WHEN PRINCESS ALEXANDRA named the new Stornoway lifeboat on Thursday February 23 it was a doubly historic occasion for, almost 30 years before, her mother the Duchess of Kent,...
Category: Inaugurations
Channel Island Lifeboat to go to Cowes, the Jersey boat could not get a crew and the Institution asked the Guernsey boat to fetch her, That was on the 28th. When the Guernsey boat arrived at St. Helier in the evening German aeroplanes were...
Category: Articles
SEPTEMBER 18TH. -PORT ERIN, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. At 11.21 in the morning the Castletown coastguard reported to the Port Erin life-boat station that the Peel life-boat, had launched at eleven o’clock to search for the herring drifter Manx...
They were crying out to be saved.’ It’s the kind of phrase you’ll hear from our lifeboat crews after
a rescue. But there is another group who share this noble narrative – the lifeboat restorers
They’re depending...
Category: Articles