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Blue Falcon
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 7.51 a.m.
on 8th April, 1967, a small vessel was reported to be firing distress rockets off Wylfa head. A helicopter reported that the vessel was down by the head. The life-boat Lady Jane and Martha...
Two Dinghies
Selsey, Sussex - At 1.54 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, it was learned that during a sudden storm a boat had capsized and two men were in the water off Selsey Bill and other small boats were in difficulties.
The life-boat...
A Rowing Boat
Hoylake, Cheshire - At 4 p.m. on 24th June, 1967, while the life-boat Oldham IV was returning from an exercise, a small rowing boat with four youths on board was sighted in the vicinity of Prestatyn buoy about a mile off...
Membership News
Active Membership The growth of our active membership continues to be encouraging, and at 13 September 1989 consisted of 149,076 adults, (24,743 Governors and 124,333 Shoreline) with Storm Force reaching 9,592 individuals and 144 groups.<...
Category: Articles
Windy Old Weather
Newcastle, County Down, in a Force 9 to 10 southeasterly as the station's Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay surfs into the harbour entrance at a speed considerably above that which her designer intended.
The photograph was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Seven-Year-Old Laura Scaife Receives Her Commemorative Storm Force Nameplate from Brian Johnson of Intercity
Seven-year-old Laura Scaife receives her commemorative Storm Force nameplate from Brian Johnson of InterCity after naming the InterCity 125 train after the RNLI's junior club. The Institution was also presented with a mounted... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Breydon Merchant
Two lifeboats called to blazing ammunition ship Eastbourne and Shoreham lifeboats were launched on 24 February 1991 when fire swept through the 400-ton motor vessel Breydon Merchant some 12 miles SW of Newhaven.
The vessel...
Breydon Merchant (1)
Two lifeboats called to blazing ammunition ship Eastbourne and Shoreham lifeboats were launched on 24 February 1991 when fire swept through the 400-ton motor vessel Breydon Merchant some 12 miles SW of Newhaven.
The vessel...
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.Lifeboat Aerofilms is offering copies of these photographs at well below normal rates - and donating 25% of the print price to the RNLI. Prices Sin by Sin - £17.63, 10in by 10in -...
Category: Articles
Busy Month at Port Talbot
September was a busy month for Port Talbot lifeboat station - with the naming the station's new D class lifeboat and a Royal visit by RNLI President HRH the Duke of Kent KG taking place in just over a week of each other.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs