At 4.45 P.M. on the 22nd February, the barometer having suddenly dropped to 28 • 2, with a full gale of wind from west, the schooner Barbara, which was lying in Scrabster Roads, made signals of dis- tress. The crew of the Life-boat Co-...
Where is your hat?! I have been an RNLI Shoreline member for around 24 years.
I joined after chatting to a lifeboat crew member whilst on holiday in North Wales. He told me of an incident where a young boy had got into...
Category: Correspondence
(Right) Seen from the air the piers at the entrance to Shoreham Harbour shows the development of the port over the years. - View image in PDF
The lifeboat station is circled.. - View image in PDF
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Friday, 15th June, 1923.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Elected His Grace the DUKE OF ATHOLL, K.T., a Vice-President of the Institution.
Decided that the House of the...
Category: Committee
Sir Henry Sutcliffe Smith, who died on 30th March, 1938, at the age of seventy-four, had been associated with the Institution's Bradford branch for seventeen years. He was its honorary treasurer and secretary from 1921 until 1932, and...
Category: Obituaries
1924: (right) On London's RNLI centenary flag day, the Duke and Duchess of York, touring collection depots, talk to Captain Lawson Smith, in diving kit, outside the Mansion House.. - View image in PDF
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Where would the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION be without its Branches, of which there are nearly 400 spread over England, Scotland and Ireland! The Committee of Management of the Institution, as stated by them in their annual reports...
Category: Branches
At the naming ceremony of the new motor life-boat. With the Duke are the Mayor and Alderman. Tatham,. Honorary Secretary of the Station.. - View image in PDF
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Pictures above and below show the Longhope lifeboat, the David and Elizabeth King and E.B., just before the naming was done by Mrs. Marian Thornton, an Edinburgh solicitor's wife, who was nominated by the family of Miss Charlotte A. King... - View image in PDF
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The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Right Reverend Professor James A. Whyte (left) aboard the Arun BP Forties during his visit to Aberdeen lifeboat station.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs