SEPTEMBER 23RD. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 10.30 P .M. a message was received from the coastguard that the motor fishing boat Glad Tidings, of Lybster, had not returned. A strong N.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea....
Lone yachtsman saved PORT ERIN'S 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat Osman Gabriel launched at 1502 on April 18, 1987 following reports from Ramsey Coastguard of the yacht Aiva in difficulties and taking water 10 miles north west of the Calf...
ALL associated with the Institution will learn with deep regret that Com- mander Thomas Holmes, R.N., who was Chief Inspector of Life-boats from 1909-1919, having previously been Deputy Chief Inspector, and "District Inspector in...
Category: Obituaries
Lives lost at Lulworth Cove Two teenage boys were swept off rocks at Lulworth Cove in Dorset on 3 November 2005. A third boy managed to get himself ashore and raise the alarm. Four lifeboats, Weymouth's relief Severn class Roger and Joy...
Mr. John Taylor, aged 16, of Cullercoats, North Shields, whose father, Mr. R. J. Taylor, is a leading member of the Cullercoats ILB and was an officer for 12 years in the conventional life-boat previously stationed there, has been accepted...
Category: Articles
The Institution's New Life-Jacket and Protective Suit Made By Vacuum Reflex Ltd A Thousand Sets Will Be Bought In The First Instance. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 7.30 on the night of the 15th of March, 1948, local pilots reported that the reflection of flares could be seen off Creadon Head and at eight o'clock, with Mr. A. Westcott Pitt, the honorary...
INVERGORDON | 6 SEPTEMBER
Invergordon RNLI rescued a man from a sinking Land Rover at Cromarty Firth. The all-weather lifeboat Douglas Aikman Smith was called at 6.40am to Invergordon Sailing Club...
Category: Articles
Salute from friends.' An RN helicopter from HMS Daedalus/7/es past streaming the RNLI flag. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The RNLI's chief of operations has written to the St Helier lifeboat station expressing thanks for the way in which the crew of the station's new Tyne class lifeboat Alexander Coutanche handled a service during the storm of 25...