Inaugural Ceremonies by H.R.H. Prince George, K.G.
H.R.H. PRINCE GEORGE, K.G., named the new Motor Life-boats at Walton-on- the-Naze and Clacton-on-Sea on 25th July. These are the fourth and fifth Life-boats which Prince...
Category: Inaugurations
Dear Reader Welcome to the summer 2006 issue of the Lifeboat. Do let us know what you think of it.
Have a look at the 'News' and 'Dispatches' sections to get up to date with the RNLI family then linger...
Category: Articles
WITHIN the last few weeks we have received from the Board of Trade their annual Blue Book, furnishing in a tho- roughly comprehensive and intelligible form very full and detailed statistics of the shipping casualties "on or near"...
Category: Articles
IN The Life-Boat for November, 1918, it was indicated that in due course an effort would be made to furnish some details regarding the war services ren- dered by members of the Institution's staff in the Great War. At that time —the...
Category: Articles
How do young volunteers get involved in the RNLI of the 21st century? Life is not as simple as it used to be but the charity has a solution
Historically lifeboat stations were able to casually welcome enthusiastic...
Category: Articles
The Gift or Presentation with a difference! Uncannily accurate miniature models and will plaques of Yachts, Sailing Barges, Lifeboats and other vessels.
Modek-Completely detailed scale replicavwith crews, mounted on...
Category: Advertisement
Testing tow at Port St MaryWhen the Trent class Cough Ritchie II Launched, all that the crew knew was that a fishing boat was in trouble about 20 miles south east of Port St Mary in the Isle of Man. When they discovered that it was the large...
Immediate thanks On Wednesday December 10, 1980, our diving boat Kermit, named after a famous frog, decided to roll over on her back in an attempt to swim like her namesake. She found, however, that although in this position floating was...
Category: Correspondence
THE Italian Government lias recog- nised the gallantry of the Life-boat Crew at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, and of the others who took part in the rescue of the crew of the Italian steamer Iscibo on 27th October, 1927, by the award of...
Category: Awards
Launches 49 Lives rescued 252
DECEMBER 2ND. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
During the morning a wireless message was received at Holyhead, and telephoned to Moelfre, asking for a life-boat to take a badly-injured...
Category: Services