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Any information? I am researching the disaster which overtook HM Submarine Thetis in Liverpool Bay on 1 June 1939. At the time, it was the world's worst submarine loss in which 99 men perished.
If any readers have...
Category: Correspondence
Double Ceremony at Rye Harbour
A beautiful day broke the pattern of continuous rain on 19 October for the 250 people attending the naming ceremony of Rye Harbour's new lifeboat and boathouse.
The new Atlantic 75 lifeboat (pictured right), Commander... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lord Tennyson
At 8.30 P.M., on the 22nd January, the Coastguard at Rye Harbour reported that a vessel in the bay was making distress signals.
Without delay the Life-boat John William Dudley was launched and proceeded to the craft,...
A Profitable Partnership (For the Lifeboats) Was Entered Into When
A profitable partnership (for the lifeboats) was entered into when Esher branch joined forces with a local smallholder to sell fruit and vegetables as well as RNLI souvenirs at Esher Fair. The entire profit of over £100 went to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some of the 100 Guests In the Garden of Mrs Denis Wiffen Ofmeols Wirral They Enjoyed a Strawberry Lunch With Wine Organised Last Summer on Behalf of Hoylake Ladies' Guild Mrs Wiffen Can B
Some of the 100 guests in the garden of Mrs Denis Wiffen ofMeols, Wirral. They enjoyed a strawberry lunch with wine organised last summer on behalf of Hoylake ladies' guild. Mrs Wiffen can be seen standing in the background on the left... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sailing on Through Stormy Seas
Highlights from the Chairman's report to the Annual General Meeting on 22 May 2003At the Lifeboats AGM in May, Chairman Peter Nicholson looked back over another successful year, but warned that the Institution needs to react to a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent at Weston-super-Mare
Inaugural Ceremony of the new Motor Life-boat.
H.R.H. THE DUKE of KENT, KG., on 27th June named the motor life-boat at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. This is the ninth motor life-boat which he has named. The other eight have...
Category: Inaugurations
Right: Up to the Middle 1930S Families 'sailed' In This Way to Kilnsea for a Spot of Relaxation By Courtesy of 'sun' 'Yorkshire Post' and Topical Press Agency
Right: Up to the middle 1930s families 'sailed' in this way to Kilnsea for a spot of relaxation. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of 'Sun', 'Yorkshire Post' and Topical Press Agency. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait of Coxswain Richard Evans Unveiled for First Time
Portrait of Coxswain Richard Evans unveiled for first time Coxswain Richard Evans BEM of Moelf re is the subject of an RNLI-commissioned portrait which is to hang in a meeting room at Poole Headquarters.
The artist of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rotarians Celebrate: the Nine Rotary Clubs of West Glamorgan
Rotarians celebrate: the nine Rotary clubs of West Glamorgan came together for a presentation dinner at University College, Swansea, after they had raised a remarkable £25,050 for The Mumbles lifeboat appeal in a grand prize draw. Cliff... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs