DON'T you see the signal seaward? Can't you hear the rocket scream? Men and women start and listen, children waken from a dream; All the village wakes to action, all the storm is on the yell—- Buckle on your life-belts, brothers!...
Category: Poetry
The launches listed here are those for which returns had been received at RNLI Headquarters and processed by 25 July 2017
Behind every launch, new lifeboat and naming ceremony listed in this section is a community of...
Category: Articles
Calling all Mancunians: Manchester has a long and historic connection with the RNLI. The very first street collection was held in Manchester and Salford in October 1891, when £5,000 was collected, and over the years Manchester's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ls December 1849 one of the South Shields life-boats upset alongside a wrecked vessel on the Herd Sand, on which occasion 20 out of 24 men who formed the crew of the boat, perished. This melancholy accident, which in one moment prematurely...
Category: Articles
AT 4.58 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1954, the Hartland coastguard rang up the Clovelly life-boat station with the news that the motor ketch Progress, of Bideford, was in distress under the lee of Lundy Island. The trawler Hosanna...
Category: Services
THE Institution has received from the Archbishop of Wales a personal letter commending the work of the Institu- tion to the clergy and members of the Church in Wales. It is dated 23rd January, 1939: " I hope that both the clergy and the...
Category: Correspondence
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—Early on the morning of the 6th of May, 1953, the United States steamer Haiti Victory collided with the British Railways passenger steamer Duke of York two miles east-south-east of the Galloper lightvessel. The...
COMMANDER SIR REGINALD LEEDS, Bt, R.N., and Mr. H. A. W. Oughton, O.B.E., have been co-opted members of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
Sir Reginald Leeds served in both the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force,...
Category: Committee
from Fairey marine WAVENEY Class 13.4 metre Self-righting Lifeboat, one of 117 lifeboats built by our East Cowes yard for the R.IM.L.I.
A boat of this Class, built for St. Helier, Jersey R.N.L.I. Station is featured in the...
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breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and rain. The life-boat made for the position given, W. by S. 1/4S., 36 1/4 miles from Porthdinllaen Point. It was very difficult to see in the continuous rain and, when at midnight the life-boat...
Category: Services