APRIL 22TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 6.30 P.M. the Wyke Regis coastguard reported that a motor boat was drifting about a mile off Wyke. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a very heavy swell. Themotor life-boat William...
AT the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 17th January, and presided over by Mr.
CHAS. G. TURNER, C.B., Mr. CHAS. DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that the number of the...
Category: Meetings
POKTMADOC, CARNARVONSHIRE. — At 8 A.M. on the 24th January, a vessel having been observed on the S. side of the bar during a strong W.N.W. wind, the John, Ashbury Life-boat put off, and with some difficulty got alongside the vessel, which...
By the death of Mr. George B.
Dixon, of Walthamstow, at the age of seventy-six, the Institution has lost one of its most valued honorary secretaries. He was appointed honor- ary secretary in 1923, and, in spite of the...
Category: Obituaries
MR. JAMES JONES MARKS, who died on 24th March, at the age of 70, had been the honorary secretary of the Llandudno life-boat station for seventeen years.
He had been a member of the committee since 1907, so that he had taken...
Category: Obituaries
Aerokits Ltd have recently introduced into their model range a kit for the 48' 6" Solent class lifeboat, the prototype of which (shown above) is being given to Southwold Lifeboat Museum.
A royalty will come to the...
Category: Articles
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 29 August 1995 show that far during 1995: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 3,031 times (an average of more than 12 launches a day) 650 lives were saved (an average of more than a day) Some...
Category: Articles
While attending the South of England show at Ardingly in June, HRH The Duchess of York visited the RNLI stand, where she was introduced to Ken Everard, then coxswain of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat.
The Duchess also spoke to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The crew of Cullercoats inshore lifeboat went to the aid of an unusual casualty in March - a 7ft conger eel! The 70lb fish, named Queenie, was given a flying start on her journey to the spawning grounds of the Azores, when her keepers at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the 12th December, at 12.45 P.M., the coxswain of the Life-boat was informed by some boatmen that they had seen a vessel on the Goodwin Sands, apparently wreck, with only one mast standing.
The crew were assembled, and...