Big problems with little ships I was fascinated to read about the 34 calls to which the Poole lifeboat responded on August Bank Holiday last year. It certainly sounds like the record for one station.
Another interesting set...
Category: Correspondence
Jeffrey Holland and Felix Bowness (centre I and r) look it in turns to draw the 13 tickets while David Green (I), RNLI co-ordinaton'special duties, spun the drum. With them fr) is Anthony Oliver, appeals secretary.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Captured in oils: the most recent of the celebrated marine artist, David Cobb's lifeboat paintings is this impression of a rescue carried out by Troon lifeboat on September 12, 1980. Her coxswain, Ian Johnson, was awarded the silver...
Category: Drawings
OCT. 18TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An aeroplane was reported to hare fallen into the sea in flames, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £15 7s. 6d..
The new life-boat Tynesider. She is a 46 ft. 9 ins. Watson cabin motor life-boat and went to the station on the 29th of November, 1947. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Aberdeen's 52Ft Arun Bp Forties On Exercise The Lifeboat Plays A Vital Role In The Pattern of Search and Rescue Operating In The Area Photograph Courtesy Jim Fer. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In July, chartered surveyor Paul Rocky successfully completed the Avon challenge - a 50 mile row upstream along the Avon from Tewkesbury to Stratford - to raise cash for the lifeboats.
• Paul's time (excluding stops)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
THE management of a boat in the dangerous circumstances of a heavy sea and broken water, is altogether so practical a thing, that it may be thought no rules or instructions can be given which would be of much value to those called on to put...
Category: Articles
Barrow, Lancashire ; Maryport, Cumberland; Ramsey, and Douglas, Isle of Man, October 19th.—On the 18th October the s.s. Esbo, of Helsingfors, left Preston in ballast for Finland. Bad weather was encountered, and the Esbo got into...
Over the years the RNLI's dependence on money left to it in legacies has helped keep the Institution buoyant, providing a regular backbone to the income raised by volunteers and Shoreline members and enabling it to build and maintain a...
Category: Articles