One of the first of many visitors to be shown over Rother class lifeboat Silver Jubilee (below) was Clare Francis (right). On her tour of the show, after performing the opening ceremony, she called at the RNLI stand where Major-General... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portush and Red Bay lifeboats were launched when the sail training vessel The Lord Rank ran aground off the coast of Co Antrim on 8 June.
There were six people onboard the 21m yacht – five radio DJs and the skipper. In a 4...
Category: Articles
Coming into force 1200 zone time, July 15, 1977 AN INTRODUCTION TO AN INTRODUCTION by Leslie J. Vipond Inspector, Mobile Training Unit AS A YOUNG MAN, determined to follow the sea as a career, I grew up to fear the 'Articles'. The...
Category: Articles
Click 'View original layout'
Category: Services
To WILLIAM WATTS WILLIAMS, on his retirement, after serving for 19| years as coxswain of the St. David's life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement allowance.
To MATTHEW LETHBBIDGE,...
Category: Awards
Yarmouth, Isle-of-Wight. — At 8.20 in the evening of the 1st of April, 1950, a fisherman at Lymington telephoned that a yacht needed help. He said he had already towed her from a positionoff Christchurch to Lymington Spit buoy, but that she...
Details might have changed since going to print, so please check in advance to avoid disappointment. To find out what else is on near you, see RNLI.org/events.
LIFEBOAT DAYS
Your chance to get up close to the...
Category: Articles
Sitting from left to right are: Sir Ernest Glover, Bt. (President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom), Lord Waldegrave, Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution, and Mr. Joseph Conrad. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Joseph Rothwell Sykes and Hilda M on the Day of Her Naming Ceremony. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In support of the Lord Mayor of Birmingham and BBC Pebble Mill lifeboat appeal, the BBC staged a Pebble Mill Dash last October; it was a competition to find who could arrive at the Birmingham TV studios by the most unusual means. The first... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs