(Below) 1949 was the year in which Jim Bunting first became a member ofDonaghadee lifeboat crew. He has been coxswain since 1968.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The first box offish sold at the new £325,000 fish market at Brixham, Devon, was put up for auction for the benefit of the Torbay branch. It was sold three times over and netted £23.96..
Category: Donations
IN THE SUMMER and early autumn of 1974 exceptional weather conditions were experienced over much of Britain with frequent and prolonged gales. These were particularly severe over the period from Sunday, September 1 to Tuesday, September 3....
Category: Articles
Left: Brighton lifeboat crew members and SEA Check coordinator Tony Clare snatch the trophy for the fastest RNLI crew team for the sixth year running.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
After a fateful day at the end of June, Uzma Khan was left wondering what would have happened if she hadn’t stepped out onto the sands … if she hadn’t been carrying a mobile phone … or if three volunteers hadn’t gone to her...
Category: Articles
Central and Outer London.
BEXLEY HEATH.—Rummage sale, whist drive, and dance, attended by the Mayor and Mayoress, all arranged by the Ladies' Lifeboat Guild. The Guild has adopted the lifeboat crew at the Dungeness...
Category: Branches
Height of success: all five Troon primary schools took part in the local guild's sunflower growing competition last year. The children asked family and friends to sponsor their flowers and a prize of a trip on Troon lifeboat and an RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Views across a century With an eye and ear for history, (I) Paul Reed, Fred Hills and Richard Ovenden, crew members of Littlestoneon- Sea's Atlantic 21 lifeboat posed for a photograph which has a not altogether coincidental resemblance... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sheerness Trent named by HRH The Duke of Kent KG Even the dark clouds and splatters of rain decided to clear and let the sunshine smile on the new Trent class lifeboat at her naming ceremony on Wednesday 11 September.
HRH... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Members of Uttoxer Ladies' Guild made the most of their local festival by entering a 'float' in the procession.
A 'float' was an appropriate name, as they borrowed a publicity inshore lifeboat from their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs