After she returns to shore . . .
A service is not completed when a lifeboat reaches her home port.
Before crew and shore helpers can disperse, summer or winter, day or night, boat must be rehoused,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Relief Arun, at Newhaven, September 7 A weekend of severe gales and storms was followed by a glorious sunny day on Wednesday September 7, 1983, the day on which 52-25, a new 52ft Arun relief lifeboat provided by the trustees of the late L. G...
Category: Inaugurations
JUNE 10TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. About 12.30 in the afternoon the honorary secretary of the Hoylake life-boat station noticed a yacht sailing on an easterly course towards the Rock Channel, but running into shallow water and...
JUNE 10TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. About 12.30 in the afternoon the honorary secretary of the Hoylake life-boat station noticed a yacht sailing on an easterly course towards the Rock Channel, but running into shallow water and...
Prize winners Mr and Mrs Smith meet Coxswain Peter Huxtable and his team at Shoreham Harbour Photo: John Periam. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
1. Acquire the habit of sitting down in a boat, and never stand up to perform any work which may be done sitting.
2. Never climb the mast of a boat even in smooth water, to reeve halliards or for any other purpose, but...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's...
Category: Awards
THE Institution has awarded its silver medal to Coxswain Thomas Sinclair, of Aberdeen, and its bronze medal or thanks on vellum to each member of the crew, for the rescue on 26th January of the crew of the steamer Fairy, of King's Lynn...
Category: Medals