THREE MEN who had set out to cross the Inner Wash from the River Nene to Hunstanton in a bathtub on Monday September 13, 1982, were reported overdue at 2115; the tub was lashed to inner tubes and an inflatable dinghy and powered by an...
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During a strong gale from the S.S.E., and in a very heavy sea, on the morning of the 16th March, the George Houn&field Life-boat put off and succeeded in taking into Harwich harbour the distressed brigantine Isabella Heron, of Blyth, and...
Rising country-rock star Sarah Jory (left) played a special solo acoustic concert on 6 October in aid of the Wells lifeboat-raising £1,700.
Sarah, who has been gigging non-stop in the UK and abroad for the past five... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Honorary Life Governors THE following have been appointed honorary life governors of the Institution and presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent as President of the Institution : LADY...
Category: Awards
More Lifeboats at Dunkirk In your Autumn issue lifeboat enthusiast Jeff Morris states that 19 lifeboats from the RNLI attended the evacuation of Dunkirk during 1940. He is right to say that 19 lifeboats went to Dunkirk but wrong in thus...
Category: Correspondence
May, 1929.
No meeting of the Committee of Management was held in May owing to the General Election.
Thursday, 20th June, 1929.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Category: Committee
THURSDAY, 3rd June, 1880.
THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence...
Category: Committee
MARCH Launches 36 Lives rescued 12
MARCH 1ST. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
The fishing fleet was out in bad weather, with strong squalls from the north, snow showers and a rough sea, and at 11.30 in the morning,...
Category: Services
PALLING, NORFOLK.—About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne....
Category: Services