The father, chef, broadcaster, writer and campaigner on his marine passions
A lot of your work seems to be intertwined with the sea – why is that?
I’ve...
Category: Articles
Rhyl life-boat on service. The sailing-boat was saved and its crew of two picked up by helicopter. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two new motor life-boats on the coast of Northumberland have been named this year, at Cullercoats and Boulmer.
Cullercoats.
A new motor life-boat was stationed at Cullercoats this year, replacing a pulling...
Category: Inaugurations
CREW OF EIGHT At 1.50 a.m. on 2oth November, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a vessel was aground one mile south of the North Caister buoy. At 2.10, when the tide was two hours before low water, the life-boat The Royal Thames was...
Storm Force Storm Force, the new RNLI membership scheme for everybody under 16, was launched at the London Boat Show on January 2 by Erkan Mustafa who plays Roland Browning and Simone Nylander who plays Janet St Clair of BBC Television's...
Category: Articles
THURSDAY, 10th March, 1892.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart. M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
Category: Committee
ARDROSSAN, N.B.—This life-boat establishment, which was one organised-some years since by a local society, has been taken into connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION through the kind co-operation of G. B. M. BEATSON, Esq., late...
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Pauline Morris, chairman of Newquay ladies' guild, Cornwall, and her husband, Mr M. H. Morris, station honorary secretary, run a dance club in aid of the RNLI which meets at the WI Hall every Saturday evening. A small charge is made for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Humber, Yorkshire.—During a fog on the morning of the 3rd October the Spurn Point Royal Naval Shore Signal Station reported an unknown vessel ashore near Kilnsea beacon. She was the Greek steamer Ais Giorgis, of Piraeus, bound with a cargo...
JULY
Launches 47. Lives rescued 31.
JULY 5TH - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 7.20 P .M. the coastguard reported two men were in danger on a-piledriver at Milford-on-Sea. A moderate squally S.S.W. gale was...
Category: Services