On the morning of Thursday 20 May a coach set off early from RNLI HQ in Poole, full of excited and ever-so-slightly nervous RNLI staff. They were destined for the Barbican Hall in London and a day of rare celebration. They were to Literally...
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At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 27th day of March, 1897, The Eight Hon.
Gr. J. GOSCHEN, M.P., First Lord...
Category: Annual Reports
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 6th of March, 1961, and presented medals for gallantry and other...
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On the 18th June the Iris Life-boat also went out to the assistance of the brig Shields, of Cork, which had gone on the Mahon Rocks, off the coast of Wexford, while the wind was blowing from the W.S.W. The Life-boat remained by the vessel...
NEWCASTLE, Co. DOWN.—The schooner Florence, of Belfast, bound to that port from Cardiff with coal, was seen tip be running for Dundrum Bay, apparently in distress, during a strong E.S.E. gale and a heavy sea at about 7.30 A.M. on the 22nd...
THE Institution has awarded its Thanks inscribed on Vellum and a monetary reward to Mr. J. Curtis, a fisherman of Polperro, Cornwall, for his gallantry in rescuing a shipwrecked man by climbing down the cliffs to him. in circumstances of...
Category: Awards
HRH The Princess Anne, has recently had the opportunity to inspect two of the RNLI's most up-to-date lifeboats. At Brixham (left), on a visit to open the new HM Coastguard Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre, she walked down King's Quay to... - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 5TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE, AND DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN.
An R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed several miles inland. One of the crew was killed, but the other had baled out. He was carried to the coast and came down in...
AUGUST 29TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN
Signals of distress had been reported, but the life-boat found nothing, and later it was learnt that the signals had come from a fishing boat whose engine had failed, but it had started...
AUGUST 21ST. - ABERYSTWYTH , CARDIGANSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. While the life-boat was searching, another aeroplane was reported in the sea, and a third in distress, and a motor boat was...