In Portsmouth dockyard on 23rd June, 1966, the second Oakley 48-foot 6-inch lifeboat was capsized twice for the benefit of the Press and a large unofficial gathering of naval and civilian dockyard personnel. Here she is shown righting and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
LAUNCH TO TWO COBLES IN ROUGH SEA Whitby, Yorkshire. At 9.15 on the morning of the 13th April, 1962, the second coxswain called the attention of the honorary secretary to the fact that the sea was becoming rough at the harbour bar and that...
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: November 5 and December 2 Relief 52ft Arun: January 26 and February 9 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: November 4 Aldeburgh, Suffolk Relief 42ft Beach: December 30 and January 5 Amble, Northumberland 37ft 6in...
Category: Services
Whitstable, Kent. At approximately 2.15 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a small dinghy with one person on board was in difficulties a half a mile off shore. At 2.20 the IRB launched in a strong southwesterly...
The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, was held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, the 17th day of March 1881. In the absence of His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O...
Category: Annual Reports
Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.8 on the night of the 3rd of August, 1958, the watchman at the east pier informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen near Quern buoy. At 10.23the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a slight...
At 12.58 p.m. on i6th October, 1966, a small catarmaran with an elderly man on board was seen in difficulties half a mile north west of the coastguard look-out.
The man appeared to be exhausted. The life-boat Elizabeth...
Blyth, and Newbiggin, Northumber- land.—At 7.32 on the morning of the 10th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned the Blyth life-boat station to say a man at Cambois had reported that a fishing coble appeared to be in difficulties in...
EACH YEAR since 1905, except in wartime, the annual National Service for Seafarers has been held in St Paul's Cathedral, in the City of London, to celebrate the unity of calling of all those who use the sea. At the 1981 service, held on...
Category: Articles
A 24-MiNUTE film on the life-boat service, Part-Time Heroes, won a silver cup presented by the Ministry of Naval Defence when shown this year at a review of maritime docu- mentaries during the Milan Fair.
The film shows a...
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