The following Coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were also awarded an annuity, gratuity or pension....
Category: Awards
Left: Brighton lifeboat crew members and SEA Check coordinator Tony Clare snatch the trophy for the fastest RNLI crew team for the sixth year running.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Drifting in gale A DUTCH YACHT, the 42ft Ran I, reported at 2238 on Thursday June 4, 1981, that she was in difficulties in the vicinity of Shipwash Lightvessel; her engine had broken down and she was drifting in gale force winds. She had...
Abersoch, Gwynedd September 13, October 15 and 25 Aberystwyth, Dyfed September 1, October 14 and 18 Aldeburgh, Suffolk September 9 Amble, Northumberland September 15 Appledore, North Devon September 2, 5 (three times), 15 and November 4...
Category: Services
(See Diagrams on next page.) The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general...
Category: Articles
(See Diagrams on next page.) The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general...
Category: Articles
HAULING-OFF WAKPS TO LIFE-BOATS.
To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.
SIR, THE Committee of the Southwold Branch of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION have requested me to seek, through the medium...
Category: Correspondence
Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
September Meeting.
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 11.45 A.M. on the 18th June the honorary secretary received a telephone...
Category: Services
The official party, including the Duke of Atholl (far I.) and the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, aboard Invergordon lifeboat after the naming ceremony. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of T. Bailey Forman Newspapers Ltd.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jan. 6.—Voted 37. to 6 men of Ballyetherland, Co. Donegal, for saving 6 other men whose boat had been destroyed by a whale off St. John's Point, on the 3rd November.
Also 31. to 5 men for rescuing 2 others from a...
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