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The Pyrene Company Ltd
Just as ships on the men emergency of THE PYRENE COMPANY LTD.
9 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I Victoria 8474 Head Office and works BRENTFORD, MIDDLESEX Canadian Plant: TORONTO Australian Plant: MELBOURNE in distress know...
Category: Advertisement
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1886
Jan. 7.—Voted 61. to six men, for saving the crew, consisting of eight men, of the brigantine Pathfinder, of Digby, N.S., who had taken refuge on Tor Rock, about a mile N.W. of Innia- trahull Light, off the coast of Donegal, their vessel...
Category: Articles
We Ask the Questions
The lifeboat service relies heavily on its network of branches, guilds and volunteer fundraisers to bring in the money, so it is important that the best tools for the job are readily available to those who need them.
The...
Category: Articles
Join the crew
There’s a new reason to be a member of Storm Force, the RNLI club for children. Crew Room is a new RNLI website packed with extra goodies exclusively for Storm Force members.
Members get a password to unlock new RNLI games...
Category: Articles
Men Behind the Medals
The Annual Presentation of Awards Ceremony in London provides a rare opportunity to gather together some of the year's medal winners and allow them to talk about their lifeboats, their services and their methods and views.Silver...
Category: Articles
On Board the Louise Stephens
The first of the 46-feet Gorleston type, stationed at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston. The picture shows the wheel and the engine control board. The engine-room hatch is open.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Admiralty Dredger St. Giles
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At eight o'clock on the morning of the llth of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Ad- miralty dredger St. Giles was bound for Scarborough with a seriously injured man on board...
The Margate Ladies
In disclosing that the R.N.L.I.'s temporary secondhand shop in High Street, Margate, had netted £800 in three weeks, Mrs. H. D. Ford, honorary secretary of the Margate ladies' life-boat guild, said : 'We must have over 1...
Category: Donations
Swordfish
Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.45 on the morning of the 24th of June, 1958, the Spurn Point coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the S.S.
Rota had signalled by morse lamp that a small yacht off Bull Sands needed...
Drifting in the dark
Two 13-year-olds found themselves drifting out to sea in the dark on the evening of 7 September.
Wearing only Summer clothes, they thought they had secured their inflatable dinghy close to the shore near Hove but later...
Category: Articles