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Saturday Revisited
On Easter Monday 2000, a rather special piece of RNLI history was recreated with grateful thanks to the organisers of the Streets Ahead launch parade in Manchester. The RNLI in the north west was successful in raising over £5,000 in...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Rutgers Victory
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 4.4 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1953, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that a vessel had run ashore on the west end of the Pentland Skerries.
At 4.30 the life-boat Thomas McCunn was...
The Danish Coaster Petit Folmer
Cargo shifted A MAYDAY distress call was received from the small Danish coaster Petit Folmer at 1025 on the morning of Thursday December 8, 1983, reporting that she was taking water, listing and needed assistance; she was 2l/2 miles east of...
Life-Saving Display By the New Brighton Motor Life-Boat at Blackpool
Life-Saving Display By The New Brighton Motor Life-Boat at Blackpool. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fig 4: Exhaust Pipe Spring Loaded Valve Designed By the Rnli
Fig. 4: Exhaust pipe spring loaded valve designed by the RNLI..
Category: Drawings
The S.S. Ardgantock
On the afternoon of the 14th September the s.s. Ardgantock, of Greenock, bound from Ghent to Llan- elly with scrap-iron, ran into heavy seas going down-channel. Her cargo shifted and gave her a dangerous list to starboard. She put about and...
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1932.
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Category: Accounts
Relief Brede: Champagne Breaks Over the Bow of the 33Ft Brede Relief Lifeboat Named Rnlb Merchant Navy
Relief Brede: Champagne breaks over the bow of the 33ft Brede relief lifeboat named RNLB Merchant Navy to mark the generous support given to the lifeboat service over many years by merchant seamen. The ceremony took place in St Katharine... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. Herbert F. Lancashire, J.P., of Nottingham, a Member of the Committee of Management
Mr. Herbert F. Lancashire, a member of the Committee of Management and the Chairman of the Nottingham and District Branch, died on 30th January last, and the Committee deeply regret i the loss of a most valued colleague....
Category: Obituaries
They Carefully Approach
They carefully approach the casualty to check for any remaining flames.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs