The ladies oj Kirkburton guild. West Yorkshire, together with many friends, volunteered to be extras in a training film made recently for the National Biscuit Company at Hillards stores.
After a very entertaining afternoon,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
ON the morning of the 15th of April, 1954, the weather at Whitby, which was already bad, became steadily worse. The local fishing fleet was at sea, and at 9.30 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.
Ex-Coxswain...
Category: Services
It is with deep regret that the Institution reports the death on 23 April 1992 of Cdr Ralph Swann CBE, a life vice president and former Chairman of the RNLI, at the age of 87.
Cdr Swann first joined the Institution's...
Category: Obituaries
The RNLI's 1998 Annual Meetings For the fourth year running, the RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards, held on 21 May, took place at the Barbican Centre in the City of London.
Displays were set...
Category: Meetings
THE RNLI'S PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES contain thousands of lifeboat pictures which not only document the progress in boats and equipment but also provide an insight to changing social conditions.
The selection on these pages...
Category: Articles
A CENTENARY DINNER AND DANCE Was held at the Royal Hotel, Clacton, on April 21, 1978, at which Raymond Baxter, guest of honour and a member of the RNLI Public Relations Committee, presented the centenary vellum to the branch president,...
Category: Articles
SOUTH WEST St. Ives, Cornwall - At 6.25 p.m. on 3rd July, 1967, news was received that a skin diver was missing near the Stones reef. The IRB was launched at 6.30 in a moderate westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. The...
Category: Services
It’s a Saturday afternoon in Manchester, 1891. Thousands flock to the city’s streets to catch a glimpse of something they have never seen before: lifeboat crew members and their lifesaving craft. As the lifeboats – from the...
Category: Articles
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th June, 1954 ....
78,727 Notes of the Quarter LIFE-BOATS AND...
Category: Articles
As you read this, an RNLI pager will probably be going off somewhere. Heads will turn to the ear-piercing beeps, adrenaline will pump and someone will be leaving in a hurry.
But what about the...
Category: Articles