Covenant is an old-fashioned word which in modern English is the equivalent of 'undertake' or 'promise'. If an individual or a company undertakes to pay a charity a certain sum each year for a minimum of seven years, then the...
Category: Donations
SALCOMBE LIFEBOAT PRINT "BALTIC EXCHANGE II" A SPECIAL EDITION SIGNED PRINT TO COMMEMORATE A FAMOUS YEAR IN THE HISTORY OF SALCOMBE LIFEBOAT.
BY GORDON ASHTON IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SALCOMBE LIFEBOAT CREW The...
Category: Advertisement
From Punch, February 13th, 1892, on the occasion of the wreck of the Eider Reproduced by kind permission of the proprietors of PUNCH.
Category: Drawings
MAY 28TH. - WALMER, KENT. A French motor torpedo boat had struck a submerged wreck, but a naval drifter had gone to her help. - Rewards, £19 7s..
Douglas, Isle of Man; Holy head and Moelfre, Anglesey - On 2nd December, 1966, the Douglas, Holyhead and Moelfre life-boats were launched to the Greek motor vessel Napiporos. A full account of this service, for which two gold medals were...
At Earls Court, Ravmond Baxter, chairman of the Public Relations Committee, presented RNLI Public Relations awards to Alun Richards, the author (second from left, back row I. BBC Wales and The Mumbles lifeboat station for their various... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Explosions due to the dispersing of a wreck in foggy weather were mis- taken for distress signals by a light- vessel.—Rewards, £21 6s..
The Moses life-boat at St. Ives, after repeated attempts with different crews, saved 1 man from the French brig Courrier du Nord, which became a total wreck on St. lyes Ridge.
The naming ceremony and dedication of the new Wick, Caithness, life-boat Princess Marina —she is a 48-foot 6-inch Oakley Mark II— took place in September. H.R.H. Princess Alexandra named the boat, the cost of which was met from the H. M....
Category: Inaugurations
The same life-boat saved the crew of 15 men of the S. S. Harmonia, of Hamburgh, which became a total wreck on a sand bank near Brancaster.