WE'VE songs in praise of men of fame, Of men who've fought and bled, Whose names still live in history, Though they themselves are dead: But I'll not sing of heroes gone— My burthen now shall be Our gallant British Life-boat men,...
Category: Poetry
Race to the Pole
by James Cracknell
and Ben Fogle
Review by Charlie Cash
After conquering the perils of the Atlantic Ocean in an open boat, most people would wallow in the...
Category: Articles
to -voluntary zvorkers at the 1998 Annual Presentation of Awards Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting, the Committee of Management has awarded three Honorary Life Governorships, 10 Bars to the Gold Badge and 50 Gold Badges....
Category: Awards
Foynes Island, 10 miles downthe Shannon Estuary, has a fast running title with an average ilepth of 20 feet at most stages. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of (lie Irish Tourist Board. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lerwick: After standing by the listing Fred Everard all night, on her slow progress towards Lerwick through gale force winds, as the list increased, the 52' Barnett relief lifeboat Ramsay Dyce took off her chief engineer's wife and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Within three days of his appointment as Minister for The Marine and Natural Resources, Frank Fahey TD (Teachta Dala - Member of the Irish Dail or parliament) paid a courtesy call to Galway lifeboat station to visit the boathouse and view the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lives Rescued.
Lives rescued by life-boats before the outbreak of war - - -197
Lives rescued by life-boats after the outbreak of war - - - 1001
Total of lives rescued by life-boats...
Category: Annual Reports
INFORMATION relative to the Life-boat and other Life-saving Services of other countries moat always be of great interest to the supporters of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which, being the oldest Life-boat Service in the world,...
Category: Articles
On the 20th August, at daylight, a small vessel, which afterwards proved to be the smack Hope, of Dublin, was observed to be on shore on the Horse Bank at the entrance to the Mersey. The Southport life-boat, in con- nection with the NATIONAL...
HMS Kedleston and other escorts accompany City of Edinburgh up the Forth. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of The Scotsman. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs