What difference did the RNLI make in 2014? At our AGM and Annual Presentation of Awards on 21 May, supporters and volunteers gathered to find out. By 4.30pm, at the Barbican, London, hands were aching from applause, hearts were...
Category: Articles
THE Royal National Life-boat Institution has been criticised from time to time for being slow in adopting modern designs and techniques.
Such criticism largely arises from a lack of appreciation of several factors which...
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ABOUT 2.45 on the afternoon of the llth August, 1962, the yacht Lorelei, which was one of the Mermaid class, capsized shortly after leaving Rush Harbour, Co. Dublin. Several people saw the incident and raised the alarm.
A...
Category: Awards
Arun tows yacht for 34 miles against NE gale Newhaven's Arun class Keith Anderson was involved in a long and arduous service on 4 April 1988 when she was at sea for nearly six-and-a-half hours in a NE gale, picking up her casualty and...
With deep regret we record the following deaths JUNE 1989: Eric Offer, coxswain/mechanic of Dun Laoghaire lifeboat from 1967 until his death.
Coxswain Offer was awarded a bronze medal in 1969.
JULY 1989:...
Category: Obituaries
Five lifeboats in long search for lost fishermen Newcastle, Co. Down's, Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay and Portaferry's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter V took part in long searches for the two crewmen from a fishing boat Silver Quest which...
Saviours at the sand When faced with 3m swells, notorious sandbanks and a drifting, rolling fishing vessel, it cannot be easy to stay calm. But the composure and courage of a helmsman and her crew in just such conditions saved two lives -...
Worthwhile find Whilst turning out a drawer today I came upon some pictures showing the Worthing lifeboat and crews, we wondered if readers would be interested in seeing this cutting (left).
For some time we lived in the...
Category: Correspondence
THE annual meeting of the committee of this fund, of which H.R.H. the DUKE OF EDINBURGH is patron, was held on the 11th January last at the General Post Office, W. H. HAINES, Esq., 1 of the House of Lords, occupying the...
Category: Meetings
MANY of our readers will have learned by the newspapers that for some time past discontent has existed amongst our merchant seamen, chiefly on the ground of their being liable to imprisonment for re- fusing, after signing articles, to...
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