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RAF Officers Examining the Airborne Life-Boat on the Deck of the Danish Trawler Betty Fn 41 at Great Yarmouth In July 1943 the Trawler Crew Had Slashed the Inflated
R.A.F. officers examining the airborne life-boat on the deck of the Danish trawler Betty FN 41 at Great Yarmouth in July, 1943.
The trawler crew had slashed the inflated whale back bags at bow and stern to deflate them. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Need for Fully Protected Propellers and Rudders Is Obvious In This Photograph of Selsey's Tyne Class Lifeboat Leaving Her Slipway Note the Deep Skeg Just Visible on Th
The need for fully protected propellers and rudders is obvious in this photograph of Selsey's Tyne class lifeboat leaving her slipway. Note the deep skeg just visible on the port side.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Danish Fishing Vessel Senious
Lerwick, Shetlands - At 12.35 a-mon 22nd March, 1966, a vessel was reported aground to the east of Lerwick harbour. There was a moderate north westerly breeze and a calm sea. The lifeboat Claude Cecil Staniforth set out 20 minutes later on...
The Duke of Kent President of the Institution Visited Stornoway Barra Island and Mallaig on Thursday October 2 Meeting Crew Members and Their Families As Well As Station Branch Officials And
The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, visited Stornoway, Barra Island and Mallaig on Thursday October 2, meeting crew members and their families as well as station branch officials and committee members of fund-raising branches and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The RNLI and me: Nadia Sawalha
WHO IS NADIA SAWALHA?
Actor, writer and two-time marathon runner, Nadia Sawalha has appeared in films including Slave of Dreams and Clockwise, and is a regular face on TV. She is perhaps best known for her roles in soaps such as...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Cambank
At 11.30 A.M.
on the 20th February, during calm smooth weather, Coxswain Jones of the Life-boat James Cullen received a telephone message from the Coastguard asking him to launch the Life-boat as quickly as possible as...
Vision, of Drogheda
During a heavy gale from the S.W. on the 4th December, the intelligence was received at Castletown that the schooner Vision, of Drogheda, had struck on a reef of rocks near Strand Hall, about two and a half miles from Castletovvn. The crew...
The H.M.S Squirell
—• At 5.30 P.M.
on the 24th May information was received by telephone from the Chief Officer of Coastguard at Par that a man in an open boat was in difficulties, and driving fast out to sea, about nine miles from Polkerris....
Leopold, of Riga
About 2 j P.M. on the 18th October, at which time i itt was blowing a heavy gale from E.S.E., - the schooner Leopold, of Eiga, was ob- ; served on the Tay Banks at the mouth of | that river. The Life-boat Mary Hartley, stationed at...
The Annual Meetings
The RNLI's annual meetings - the AGM and Presentation of Awards - were held on 16 May at the Barbican, in the City of London, for the second year running. The 'new' venue provides enough space for the Institution to set up...
Category: Meetings