Llandudno, Caernarvonshire; Rhyl, Flintshire; Beaumaris and Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4 p.m. on 6th May, 1968, the coastguard informed the Llandudno honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile west of Great Ormes Head...
Howard Evans, a fundraiser from Weston-super-Mare, is the 2009 RNLI Photographer of the Year. His photo, shown on the front cover, was taken at the station’s open day and demonstrates the cruel conditions under which lifeboat crew often find...
Category: Articles
As it is to fishermen that we must look in most cases to man our life-boats in time of need, it seems desirable to place on record in the pages of this Journal, the number of fishing-boats at each station around the coasts of England, and...
Category: Articles
Ramsgate, Kent.—About 3.30 in the afternoon, on the 17th of December, 1949, the coastguard reported a fishing vessel aground on the Quern Shoal Brake Sands, and at 3.36 the life-boat Prudential was launched. A gale wasblowing from the...
Workington, Cumberland. At one o'clock early on the morning of the 24th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Beaver, which had sailed from Maryport the morning before, had not...
RNLI MEMBERSHIP SCHEME We are grateful to Christopher McGough, one of our Annual Governors, who has brought to our attention some historical notes concerning the membership scheme and, as we reach yet another milestone, it is an opportune...
Category: Meetings
BRIDLINGTON. — On the 22nd of March last, at 3 A.M., the wind blowing strong from E.N.E. at the time,' and a heavy sea running, signals of distress were observed from Bridlington Quay on board the schooner Albion, which had on the...
Category: Services
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SAFETY AT SEA? RFD 'Z' boats are extensively used by RNLI for inshore rescue work.
Specially developed for rough weather conditions with a large reserve of built in buoyancy.
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JUNE 28 TH . - ST, PETERPORT, GUERNSEY, On 26th of June the honorary secretary at St Helier, Jersey, telephoned to the Institution that he was unable to get a crew to take his life-boat to Cowes, which it had been arranged that he should do,...
Major General Sir Robert Pigot, Bart, CBE, QBE, DL, RM, a vice-president of the RNLI. Sir Robert became president of the Isle of Wight lifeboat board in 1975 and in the same year was elected on to the committee of management. In recognition...
Category: Obituaries