Coxswain Edward WicJcham, of Wexford, Co, Wexford, who was Second Coxswain from 1886 to 1899, and Coxswain from 1899 to 1925, and who twice won the Silver Medal of the Institution for gallantry, has written the following account of his first...
Category: Services
Ann Jeavons - former Moelfre fundraising guild and lifeboat station committee member.
Category: Obituaries
Two Life-boat launches have taken place this year, those of the Motor Life- boats at Atklow in County Wicklow, and Wick in Caithness-shire.
The Arklow Boat, which is a Self- Righter, 40 feet by 10 feet 6 inches, ! fitted...
Category: Inaugurations
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 10.45 on the night of the 25th of August, 1950, the Gorleston coastguard passed on a message from the British ship Cornea. She had the Dutch yacht Amy II in tow, disabled by an...
WITH the view if still farther recognising long, faithful and good service in the Life-boat cause, the Committee of Management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION introduced on the 1st January 1 last a pension and gratuity scheme,...
Category: Articles
THERE are many matters, both in con- I nexion with the work of the Stations and of the Financial Branches, which I should '• be glad to discuss with Life-boat workers, and which they, no doubt, would like to ' discuss among ...
Category: Articles
Salute from search and rescue colleagues: a Wessex helicopter from Portland naval base flies overhead, streaming an RNLI flag, as, after her naming, RNLB Ralph and Bonella Farrant gives a demonstration run in Holes Bay.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, visited Ramsgate and Broadstairs .on the 19th of May. At Ramsgate she opened and named the new landing stage and laid the foundation stone of the extension of the out patient department of...
Category: Articles
20 May 1999 - A major engineering feat, the completion of the new pierhead lifeboat station and slipway at Cromer, was celebrated inside the boathouse with the help of the Bishop of Norwich, the Very Reverend Peter Nott, RNLI Deputy Chairman... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Left) Champagne breaks over the bow of the 44ft Waveney relief lifeboat Wavy Line, and (below) a bouquet is presented to her namer, Mrs Barbara Laird, by Sir Alec Rose. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs