..and Presentation of AwardsThe Awards ceremony is the RNLI's chance to publicly honour and thank those people who have shown a level of dedication to the lifeboat service over and above normal expectations. The RNLI's President, HRH...
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MARCH 10TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. At 11.30 P.M. on 9th March, the duty naval officer at Ardrossan reported the S.S. Asteria, of Glasgow, ashore on Eagle Rock, off Ardrossan breakwater, and in need of help. She was a vessel of 694 tons gross, in...
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
The first ever child of two ex-lifeboat crew members: Andrew James Louis Mitchell with his parents, David and Marjorie, on the day of his christening which was held, naturally enough, aboard Aberdeen's 54ft Arun class lifeboat BP Forties... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The first all-weather 'Blue Peter' lifeboat, the Trent class Blue Peter VII, on trials before going to her station at Fishguard.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Our cover photo and the images in our piece about Shetland life were made by Jack Lowe using a Victorian process called wet plate collodion
Jack plans to visit all 237 RNLI crews as part of the Lifeboat Station Project,...
Category: Articles
Torbay, Devon.—On the night of the 30th January, 1939, the Berry Head coastguard reported that rockets had been seen about eight miles to the eastward.
A moderate easterly gale was blowing, with a heavy swell. At 8.55 P.M....
On the 25th Jan. the brig ! Ercole, of Naples, was descried off St.Anne's Head in a distressed and (in the i judgment of the crew) hopeless condition ; they haying, in consequence of her dis- I abled state, anchored their vessel on a...
RNLI director, Rear Admiral W. J. Graham (I), with Mr Roger Smith, deputy chairman of Tricentrol PLC after the official handing over by the oil company of their gift of a new 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat for use in the relief fleet. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs