Regular customers at the "Rising Sun" in the City of London are expected to carry with them certain unusual coins which they are known to possess. If they fail to produce them fines are imposed, and in this way the landlord, Mr. F....
Category: Donations
Drifting in a raging storm in the middle of the Irish Sea, the crew of the stricken Greek freighter, Nafsiporos, feared they’d never see their families again. Who had the skill and courage to get to them in time? It’s only 3½ weeks...
Category: Articles
number, Yorkshire - At 1.45 p.m. on 7th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a fishingboat had broken down and was drifting one mile south-east of Chequer buoy. The life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin, on temporary duty...
On. the 16th October another gale was experienced, and at 2.30 P.M. signals of distress were shown by the schooners Catherine Latham and Sir Robert, which were anchored in Moelfre Bay. Their crews, numbering in all seven men, were taken into...
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Gross Road, on Saturday, the 12th day of March, 1898, His Grace the DUKE OF LEEDS in the Chair, the following Report of...
Category: Annual Reports
HOWTH, Co. DUBLIN.—The Life-boat on this station has been replaced by a new 10-oared Life-boat, 34 feet long and 8 feet wide, constructed according to the latest designs. The cost of the new Life-boat, which is named the Tom and Ida,...
Category: Articles
Jim Mead, honorary secretary of Molesey branch, enrols his hundredth Shoreline member, 18-year-old Kathryn Watson. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of John Eagle. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portaferry, May 9, 1987 There was a large gathering for the naming ceremony and service of dedication of the new Portaferry Atlantic 21 lifeboat Blue Peter V. The occasion included the official opening of the new boathouse, made possible...
Category: Inaugurations
FROM THE 1st JANUARY TO THE 31st DECEMBER, 1860.
Jan. 5, 1860.—Voted the thanks of the Institution, inscribed on vellum, and II. to SAMUEL DUNN, in acknowledgment of his intrepid and prompt services in rescuing, at...
Category: Articles
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town. Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 21st day of April, 1894, His GRACE THE DUKE or WESTMINSTER, K.G., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports