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Institution is constantly occupied in building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the Coasts...

The RNLI's 1998 Annual Meetings For the fourth year running, the RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards, held on 21 May, took place at the Barbican Centre in the City of London.

Displays were set...

The Whitby Life-Boat Goes Out. - View image in PDF

SWEPT OUT TO SEA At 1.20 p.m. on 24th August, 1964, the local police told the honorary secretary that four youths had been swept out to sea in a small dinghy when their engine had failed. One of the youths swam ashore when the dinghy was by...

Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 8th of January, 1956, anxiety was felt for the safety of the local fishing boat Pilot Me II, as the weather was worsening. The life-boat crew assembled, but at 6.30 the coast- guard rang...

The Royal National Life-Boat Institution's drama group, 'The Grosvenor Circle', staged their third production, 'Make it Murder', by Jack Last, at the Abbey Community Association Theatre on 27th and 28th March, 1969. In...

SEPTEMBER 1988: Vice Admiral Sir Frank Mason, KCB, chairman of Hurstpierpoint and District Branch for very many years. He was awarded a silver badge in 1978..

The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in 1970. This...