AUGUST 12TH. - ST. IVES, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL. At 10.40 in the morning the St. Ives coastguard reported that a tug, with a steamer in tow, north of St. Ives Head, was making little headway. A fresh westerly gale was blowing, with very heavy...
Saturday 16 October 1993 saw the naming ceremony and service of dedication of the new Mersey class Girvan lifeboat Silvia Burrell, a truly remarkable occasion for the lifeboat community of Girvan, as well as the famous Burrell family. Around...
Category: Inaugurations
OF the 157 life-boats in the Institu- tion's active fleet to-day, and the 23 in the reserve fleet, only six have been built out of the general funds of the Institution. The great majority have been provided by private legacies, but there...
Category: Donations
THE hundred and fifteenth annual meeting of the Governors of the In- stitution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, 26th April. Over 2,500 people were present.
H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.,...
Category: Meetings
Thursday, 14th November, 1929.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Co-opted Vice-Admiral Sir ARTHUR A. M.
DUFF, K.C.B., a member of the Committee of...
Category: Committee
OCT. 5TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. An aeroplane was reported to have sent out a distress signal, but nothing could be found.
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Category: Advertisement
'ONE of the outstanding things about our station', explained Mr. Frederick W. H. Park, M.B.E., honorary secretary of the Torbay, South Devon, life-boat station, 'is that we are never short of men to man the life-boats. As for...
Category: Articles
THE DUKE OF ATHOM-, chairman of the Institution, reported to the annual general meeting of governors on Tuesday morning. May 17, that during 1982 lifeboats launched 3.304 times, the highest number since the foundation of the RNLI, and saved...
Category: Articles
The RNLI and the Fire Services National Benevolent Fund both received cheques for £475 in March as the result of a fire engine pull from Cheltenham to Tewksbury. The event saw Cheltenham branch members, together with local fire fighters... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs