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‘HE SAVED HER FROM DISGRACE’
Janet Gleeson’s well researched biography of our founder, Sir William Hillary, The Lifeboat Baronet revealed vital new information that removes a slur on the great...
Category: Articles
Joyce Wells With a Sample of the Named Easter Eggs Which She Makes and Decorates at Home to Raise Money for Brighton Branch In Three Years She Has Made 1748 Eggs and Contributed £724
Joyce Wells with a sample of the named Easter eggs which she makes and decorates at home to raise money for Brighton branch.
In three years she has made 1,748 eggs and contributed £724 to branch funds. If any branch or... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Heavy mettle
16 October 2011: RNLI lifeguards on Perranporth Beach, Cornwall, were called to help three surfers stranded in 1½m surf with a heavy backwash from nearby cliffs. Lifeguard Adam Taylor says: ‘We made our way...
Category: Articles
Timothy's toughest plot
At sea, things don’t always go according to script – which is what led Timothy and Shane Spall to head offshore
‘If I get better, we will get a boat,’ declared Timothy Spall. It was 1996. A...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To TIMOTHY KEOHANE, on his retirement, after serving 23£ years as Coxswain of the Courtmacsherry Life-boat, a Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To CHARLES WM. CONWAY, on his retirement, after serving 5J years as...
Category: Awards
Douglas Lifeboat the 46Ft 9In Watson R a Colby Cubbin No 1 Launches on Exercise Photograph By Courtesy of the 'Isle of Man Examiner'
Douglas lifeboat, the 46ft 9in Watson R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1, launches on exercise. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of the 'Isle of Man Examiner'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Peggy, If, and Billy Boy
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 1.30 P.M. on the 4th January, 1938, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boats Peggy, If, and Billy Boy, carrying seven men altogether, were making heavy weather three miles south of...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 1st Oct., 1874 -. ; THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of One previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
SATURDAY, 18th March, 1893.
The Annual General Meeting of the friends and supporters of the ROYAL NATIONAL LITE- BOAT INSTITUTION took place this day at St.
Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road,...
Category: Committee
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 17th day of March, 1859, The Right Hon. SIR JOHN S. PAKINGTON, Bart., First Lord of the Admiralty, in the Chair, The following...
Category: Annual Reports