ON 21st November last, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., paid a special visit to Scotland, as President of the Institution, to attend a Scottish National Life-boat Assembly in Edinburgh and a Life-boat Ball, on the same day, in...
Category: Meetings
WE publish below a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the financial year ending the 30th Sep- tember, 1930. Fourteen are English, four Scottish, and two...
Category: Branches
i From left to right:—Captain Sir Herbert Acton Blake, the Hon. George Colville, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Doveton Sturdee, Bt., Sir Donald MacLean. Acting Coxswain Younj (Cloughey, Co Down). Bowman James Innei (Newburgh), Coxswain John... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.10 early on the morning of the 8th of September, 1958, the coastguard re-ported that a small boat had been seen near the Buxey Sands at 5.30 the evening before. She had engine trouble, but her crew appeared to be...
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
LAST December Coxswain Frederick Upton of Walmer gave a talk to the Thames Motor Yacht Club, and at the end of the month a party of over twenty members, with their ladies, visited Deal. They entertained the Mayor and Mayoress and the...
Category: Branches
HM The Queen breaks the traditional champagne bottle against the lifeboat as RNLI Chairman Peter Nicholson looks on. Picture: Simon Cuiiiford. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
THE following is the Coxswain's report of the important services rendered on the night of 3rd Dec. last, by the Ramsgate life-boat, to the passengers of the emigrant ship Fusilier, of London; and to the crew of the ship Denierara, of...
Category: Services