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Category: Services
In an account of the New York Life-Saving Association, in the 19th Number of this Journal, we alluded to a metallic Life-Car, which, in conjunction with the mortar and rocket life apparatus, had been instrumental in saving a large...
Category: Articles
The car boot sale organised by Henley-on- Thames branch last autumn in full swing: trade in garden tools, nearlv new clothes, toys, bric-a-brac and all manner of goods was brisk. An original, popular and profitable enterprise which resulted... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Throughout the RNLI's history the Annual Presentation of Awards has always made national news. Many supporters would have heard of a Medal for Gallantry or a Badge for voluntary work but Barry Cox, RNLI honorary librarian, has been...
Category: Articles
OAIBTEB AND WIHTEBTON NORFOLK,— The Oaister No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden put off on the 19th September and remained by the stranded steamer Jsis, of Newcastle, as the vessel had a large number of men on board who were discharging the cargo....
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 12.45 in the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1949, information was telephoned from the East Pier that a yacht had grounded on the Middle Brake Sands, and the life-boat Prudential was launched at 1.19 in a light...
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 114 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 62 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to May 31st, 1933 63,299 Annual Meeting.
THE hundred and ninth annual...
Category: Meetings
A 44-foot steel life-boat. - View image in PDF
A development of this U.S. Coast Guard life-boat, with a speed of 17 knots is destined for Falmouth. The R.N.L.I. - View image in PDF
has already six of the 44-foot version in service.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT was present on 2nd November, 1938, at the Odeon Theatre, kindly lent by Mr.
Oscar Deutsch (chairman and managing director of Odeon Theatres, Ltd.), at a special film performance in aid of the Life...
Category: Articles
The Spanish Life-boat Society has presented a certificate—their Diploma de Voto de Gracias—to the coxswains and crews of the Sennen Cove and Penlee life-boats as a token of deep appreciation for their efforts to locate the crew of the...
Category: Awards