PROVIDED ESCORT At 7.35 a.m. on I2th March, 1966, the coxswain saw a local coble, William and Martha, at sea in deteriorating weather.
The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth launched at 7.45 in a strong to gale force wind from the...
The Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I. have decided that the authorised full crew of all conventional life-boats shall in future be seven. Until now the authorised crew of wooden life-boats of over 41 feet in length was...
Category: Committee
Children at the 217-pupil infant school at Marston Green, managed to raise £50 for the RNLI and have also bought souvenirs amounting to £150.
The photograph shows a group of the children presenting a cheque for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboatmen from Skegness formed the RNLI's colour party at the Annual National Service for Seafarers at St Paul's Cathedral on 14 October 1992. Coxswain/mechanic Paul Martin, the colour bearer, escorted by crew members Raymond... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A LIMITED EDITION
I was interested to read in the autumn issue about the City of Sheffield’s return to the city that funded her. I was involved in raising an amount towards that boat when I was an honorary organiser in West...
Category: Articles
(Oxford University Press, 15s.) ADMIRAL CAMPBELL and Mr. I. O.
Evans, who has done much valuable and voluntary journalistic work on behalf of the Life-boat Service, have compiled an exhaustive and fascinat- ing book about...
Category: Articles
Overdue LATE ON THE EVENING of Thursday June 14, 1979, Fife Police informed Forth Coastguard that a flashing light was being investigated in Largo Bay and that a 9ft dinghy with three anglers on board had been reported...
some r e c e n t p u b l i c a t i o n s r e v i e w e d WEST HIGHLAND SHORES by Maldwin Drummond Published by Nautical Books at £19.95 ISBN 07136 5860 6 Maldwin Drummond is not only a Vice President on the RNLI's Committee of...
Category: Articles
If you like having serious fun on the water, the RNLI has a magazine, safety pack and DVD especially for you
Sailing, powerboating, windsurfing, angling, diving, kitesurfing, canoeing, riding your personal watercraft ......
Category: Articles
THANKS 0 We would like to thank you for the copy of THE LIFE-BOAT. We have regularly received free ones over the years and feel that, owing to increased costs, we would like to help meet this as we always take a great interest in the work of...
Category: Correspondence