Humber, Yorkshire - At 7.53 a.m.
on 6th February, 1967, news was receivedreceived that there was a sick man on the Dowsing lightvessel who needed to be taken ashore. The life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched at 8.45...
YOU, who dwell in homes of comfort, Circled by the friends you prize ; Don't forget the vessels tossing, Can't you hear the Sailor's cries ? Cries for help, where no one hears him, Cries for mercy from above, Can't...
Category: Poetry
EARLY NOVEMBER saw the first launch from Fairey's yard at East Cowes of the RNLI's prototype fast slipway boat City of London. It was the start of the exact, and exacting, programme of builder's trials through which every...
Category: Articles
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Wednesday, the 14th day of March, 1900, His Grace The DUKE OF DEVON- SHIRE, K.G., Lord President of the...
Category: Annual Reports
GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.—During a gale of wind from the N.W. and a rough sea, on the 24th December, the fishing-smacks Border Queen and Jane, of Annan, arrived off the harbour, and as it was evident that they would incur considerable risk in...
THE National Service for Seafarers, which is held each autumn, in St.
Paul's Cathedral, took place on 15th October.
At this Service the Institution is, of course, always represented, but this being the...
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ONE of the most original and successful efforts on behalf of the funds of the Institution was carried out at Bedford on 27th June. It was an historical pageant organised by the Bedford Rotary Club, and was followed by a military tattoo. The...
Category: Articles
Warrant Officer T. J. Hudson MBE is shown presenting a cheque for £200 to the President of Plymouth lifeboat station, Vice Admiral Sir Robert Gerken.
The money was raised by WO Hudson's friends and mess mates who... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Media interest after the arrival of the medallists at the Festival Pier aboard the relief Mersey Her Majesty The Queen- Mark Paterson interviewed all four medallists for BBC local television and is seen here talking to Barry Bennett of St... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At 6 P.M.
on the 10th June the Coastguard re- ported that a ship lying off Southend was flying a signal for assistance to be sent, and had semaphored that a boat was adrift and wanted help. The crew of the Life-boat James...