FISHING BOAT TOWED THROUGH HEAVY SEAS Howth, Co. Dublin. At 1.13 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the Baily lighthouse keeper reported that he had received a radio message from Lambay Island that the fishing boat Ranger of...
SICK MAN LANDED FROM TRAWLER Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 11.35 on the night of Tuesday the 30th of July, 1963, the Stornoway coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Notts Forest of Grimsby, on passage to Stornoway to...
TWO LIFE-BOAT MEN INJURED Falmouth, Cornwall. At 11.53 p.m.
on 7th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a speed boat with three people on board was missing. The boat had last been seen twelve miles south of Falmouth....
The Lord Mayor of the Metropolitan Bradford has launched an appeal for £100,000 for a fast afloat lifeboat, and by January £40,000 had already beenreached. When HM The Queen visited the city last November a half-scale model of an...
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Formula One mastermind Ross Brawn has inspired teams from some of London’s leading companies to raise £360,000 in just 8 months, most of which will be used to fund a new E class lifeboat for the River Thames.
The...
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The RNLI Engineering Department is the winner of the inaugural Maritime Safety Award from the Royal Institute of Naval Architects and Lloyd’s Register.
The award recognises the ‘innovation and technical excellence’ of our...
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Following our report 'Search for missing vessel locates wreck' in the Spring 1992 issue of the search for the fishing vessel Sincere ly lifeboats from Scarborough, Filey and Whitby, the journal has since received information of the...
The RNLI’s Chief Executive Officer Paul Boissier is stepping down this year. Here is his take on the last decade
When Sir William Hillary founded the RNLI in 1824, he vowed that with courage, nothing is impossible. That...
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Roy and Barbara Harding at Her Naming Ceremony At Galway Bay (Photo Courtesy Lt Col Brian Clark). - View image in PDF
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Newhaven, Sussex.—At 7.20 in the evening of the 20th of June, 1948, the coastguard reported a small vessel off Seaford Head flying distress signals, and the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched in a south- westerly breeze...