This photograph captures the moment that our Kinsale and Courtmacsherry Harbour lifeboat volunteers saved 30 people from a sinking training vessel off the Cork coast
Both lifeboat crews were...
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NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA, NORTHUMBER- LAND.—On the 1st July a gale from E.S.E. sprang up at about 4 A.M. Seven fishing cobles had left about four hours previously for the fishing-ground, which is about 15 miles from the shore, and considerable...
Category: Services
Lifeboatman overboard during long service to stricken coaster Members of the Scarborough lifeboat crew hauled their own Second Coxswain, John Trotter, to safety aboard their new Mersey class lifeboat Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs...
THE Chairman of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., told the annual meeting of the Institution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 25th March, 1969, that, following the serious deficit...
Category: Meetings
COVER PICTURE by Dowland Studios Lifeboat weather... A shaft of sunlight highlights the new Arun The Queen Mother during trials on a stormy day in January 1989. The lifeboat is to be stationed atThurso, and was due to sail there in March... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT EASTBOURNE MARCH 20TH. - EASTBOURNE, HASTINGS, AND NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. During the night the London steamer Barnhill, of 5,430 tons, was in the English Channel on her way from Nova Scotia to London.Two of the...
ATHERFIELD, BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, AND BROOKE, ISLE or WIGHT.—On the night of Sunday 31st January, the fourmasted s.s. Eider, of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on the reef of rocks...
DURING THE NIGHT of Monday August 13 and Tuesday August 14 southwesterly storm force winds, veering to west north west and gusting to hurricane force, struck the south-western approaches while the international Fastnet Race fleet of 306...
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AUTUMN 2010
Ms J Pollard-Ovens of West Glamorgan scooped first prize of £5,000 in the Autumn Lifeboat Lottery and elebrated with a visit to her local lifeboat station at Port Talbot.
The other cash prize...
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Fishguard - Trent class Blue Peter VII On 17 June 1995 Fishguard's brand new Elm Trent class lifeboat Blue Peter VII was officially named - and, to judge by the number of young people gathered on the foreshore for the ceremony, it was...
Category: Inaugurations