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Lottery
LIFeBoAt LotteRY Lifeboat Lottery Take your chance First prize in the winter 007 Lifeboat Lottery is a Kia Picanto. Second prize is a 10-day Alpine train holiday very kindly provided at short notice by Great Rail Journeys (see their advert...
Category: Articles
A Subscriber's Last Gift
MRS. BERTHA WADSWORTH, of Hamp- stead Garden Suburb, London, who died on llth August at the age of 77, had been a subscriber to the Institution for twenty years. By her express wish no flowers were sent to the funeral, and friends were asked...
Category: Donations
We Skied Everest!
Crew Member Richard Jones joins youngsters Timothy and Daniel Cunningham who both completed 47 runs. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st April to the 30th Sept. 1877
EYEMOUTH, N.B.—After a heavy which had been blowing for some days, temporary fine weather induced several fish- ing-boats to go to sea on the 5th April. Soon afterwards heavy ground seas set in, and fishing-boats from Eyemouth and several...
Category: Services
The Naming Ceremony of the Arun Class Duke Ofathollal Dundee on 12 May
The naming ceremony of the Arun class Duke ofAthollal Dundee on 12 May was memorable in many ways. Named in honour of The Duke of Atholl who had been the Institution's chairman for a decade up to 1989 she is also the last Arun class... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) a Long Service for Donaghadee Lifeboat: on July 17 1956 Mv Douglas of Bergen Went Ashore at the Maidens on An Ebbing Tide Sir Samuel Kelly Slipping Her M
(Above) A long service for Donaghadee lifeboat: On July 17, 1956, MV Douglas, of Bergen, went ashore at the Maidens on an ebbing tide. Sir Samuel Kelly, slipping her moorings at 0830, found her hard and fast on the rocks, holed and taking... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ceremonies
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
Ben Tart of Dungeness
Ben Tart of Dungeness We are sad to report the death of Ben Tart, one of the most well-known lifeboat coxswains of the East coast, who gave some 50 years service to the RNLI.
Born in Dungeness in January 1915, Ben followed...
Category: Obituaries
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GROOMSPORT, IRELAND.—A new life-boat has been stationed at Groomsport, County Down, by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and a branch of the Society established there. Lying at the entrance to the bay of Belfast, this station will afford a...
Category: Articles
Protective Clothing for Crews of Conventional Lifeboats Is Presently Supplied By Functional Clothing Co. Ltd. Small Modifications to the Normal Design, Including the Additi
Protective clothing for crews of conventional lifeboats is presently supplied by Functional Clothing Co. Ltd. Small modifications to the normal design, including the addition of a hood, are made specially for the lifeboat service.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs