BOY FALLS FROM THE CLIFFS Wicklow.—On the evening of the 18th of May, 1947, a boy fell from the cliffs into the sea near the Wicklow Head Lighthouse. A life-buoy was thrown to him by a keeper and, although exhausted, the boy -was able...
JULY 6TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. A boat had been reported off Bexhill, partly submerged, but she could not be found.- Rewards, £31 16s. 6d..
FOR a service, in which he had to take his life-boat through a narrow, unchartered channel, infested with rocks, to a trawler whose bow was hard aground, Coxswain John Nicolson of Aith, Shetlands, has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s silver...
Category: Services
THE LOSS OF SOLOMON BROWNE AND HER CREW, DECEMBER 19, 1981PENLEE LIFEBOAT, the 47ft Watson class Solomon Browne, with her coxswain, Trevelyan Richards, and all on board, was lost on the night of Saturday December 19 during a service to the 1...
Miss Moira Barrie, honorary secretary of Broadway Ladies' Guild since 1977 and awarded a silver badge in 1987. Miss Barrie, together with her sister Sheila, donated the D class lifeboat stationed at Tenby..
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For the RNLI, the London Boat Show 2006 in January was the chance to show the world the newTamar class of lifeboat, to recruit new supporters and to unveil the Institution's groundbreaking. - View image in PDF
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Plymouth: Coxswain David Milford (right) presents his fellow crew members to The Queen following the naming ceremony of the station's new Severn Class lifeboat Photo: Plymouth Evening Herald. - View image in PDF
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Sennen Cove's Mersey class The Four Boys catches the evening sunlight as she heads away from the the Cornish coast on exercise. - View image in PDF
Photo by Rick Tomlinson. - View image in PDF
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The Mercedes-Benz drawbar complete with trailer, at Poole's depot quay, dwarfs the Trent class lifeboat in the background with its exceptional span.. - View image in PDF
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RNLI Chairman David Acland presented a detailed model of a Trent class lifeboat to William O'Neil, Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organisation, during a recent visit.. - View image in PDF
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