Two rare postcards sen! in by Mr F. A. Fletcher of East Boldon, Tyne and Wear, co-author of two books on exhibitions, show a lifeboat on display at the Imperial Services Exhibition at Earls Court in 1913. The lifeboat was John and Amy, a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, paid a visit to the West Country in May, 1952, and named the new life-boats at the Port of Plymouth and at Padstow.
The Port of Plymouth had a life- boat station as...
Category: Inaugurations
Stromness, Orkneys. At 11.20 on the night of the 17th of August, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a vessel appeared to be in difficul- ties in Hoy Sound. The honorary secretary, the coxswain and the motor mechanic drove...
Barmouth: At the naming of RNLB Princess of Wales last November a fine painting of the lifeboat was presented to HRH The Princess of Wales by the lifeboat crew. It was by crew member and art teacher Tony Jeffs, seen here (r) with his father,... - View image in PDF
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A few days before Jon Jones went on his West Country tour of lifeboat stations with the Dl, Sue Denny, RNLI Press and Public Information Manager was in the same area looking at stations through the eyes of a tourist… rset off bright and...
Category: Articles
JANUARY 22ND. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. At 10.55 A.M. a message was received at Ramsgate from the coastguard that H.M. Destroyer Brilliant had reported that the S.S. Rynana, of Limerick, was aground a mile west of the East Goodwins Light...
THE fishwives of Cullercoats, Northum- berland, carried out their eleventh annual collection on behalf of the Institution, on 30th July, when the Cullercoats Life-boat had its quarterly road exercise and launch. The collec- tion was again a...
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ON the afternoon of 15th September, 1935, two men and a girl went bathing in the bay at Port William, Wigtown- shire, in a very heavy surf. They kept in the broken water close inshore, but they were swept off their feet by a much larger wave...
Category: Services
PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. A Small fishing boat of Porthallow with one man on board capsized and sank off Porthallow Cove when returning from fishing at about 1.30 P.M. on the 6th April. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing with a rough sea....
Category: Services
CEMAES, ANGLESEY.—At daybreak on the 5th of October a steam-tug entered the bay with a flag half-mast high and blowing her whistle. The Life-boat Ashtonian was launched, and was towed by the tug to the wreck of the ship Earl of Chatham, on...