Twin pedal power For Northfleet Carnival I built a lifeboat round my bicycle and here is a photograph of 'yours truly' at the helm (or should I say handlebars?) while pedalling along in the carnival on July 1. We had a collection...
Category: Correspondence
Starting them young! J o s e p h Stravrinidis, aged six, of Southport has been doing sterling work for the RNLI. During the September meeting of the S o u t h p o r t branch, he presented the treasurer with money raised by selling drawings...
Category: Articles
— Annual Meeting Report APACKED Central Hall, Westminster, heard Captain the Hon. V. M.
Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the Committee of Management, report on 20th April, 1966, that never had the life-boat service, in all...
Category: Meetings
Thursday, 21st August, 1930.
Paid £22,113 5s. lid. for sundry charges in connexion with the construction of Life-boats, Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and the maintenance of the various Life-boat establish-...
Category: Committee
Jan. 4.—Five men put off in a boat at night and rescued the crew of seven men from the fishing - boat Mary Anderson, of Broughty Ferry, which had stranded off Arbroath, For- farshire, in a strong S.W. gale and a rough sea.
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Yacht sinks in gale THE 30ft yacht. Fidget, of stout construction, was on passage from Gosport to Plymouth on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985, when she hit a huge crest south of Gara Rock, near Salcombe.
Within one...
Visitors to this year's London Boat Show can take a tour of Severn class lifeboat Darnel L Gibson Photo: Gilbert Hampton. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
VHP transmitter/receivers are now very compact and can be fitted in boats as small as the RNLI's D class inflatables. This photograph of the first Atlantic 75 rigid inflatable clearly shows the aerial mounted on the mast aft - as high as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some ways of filling the coffers… Society pledge In 1990, the Bristol and West Building Society ran a vendor guarantee scheme whereby £100 was pledged to charity for every case proved where the society failed to meet certain standards....
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There’s no mistaking an RNLI lifeboat – but what are all those other craft in the lifesaving team?
When RNLI lifeboat volunteers answer the call for help, they are launching to the front line in a battle to save lives –...
Category: Articles