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Ceremonies
Rosslare Harbour ROSSLARE HARBOUR in County Wexford is, according to the tourist brochures, the heart of the Sunny South East.
Unfortunately, on Friday June 28,1985, it failed to live up to its name. With the naming...
Category: Inaugurations
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution—continued
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.— The Worcester Cadet Life-boat was launched at 8.20 P.M. on the 3rd January, 1884, signal guns of distress having been heard in the direction of the " Atherfield Ledge" rocks during a thick fog and...
Category: Services
Pride of the Crew
At only 11 years old Katy Malcolm is the pride of Wick's lifeboat crew, branch and guild. Since September 1992 Katy, a member of Storm Force, has raised £650.83 by organising sales outside her parents home, raffling a doll and by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Museum at Eastbourne
ON the 22nd March this year a life-boat museum was opened at Eastbourne.
The Institution has, at its head- quarters in London, a collection of life-boat pictures and models, and there have been at various times short...
Category: Articles
Safely Ashore - Two
Safely ashore - two. Three weeks after the St Peter Port incident the 60ft fishing vessel Avalon II was in collision with a large tanker on 28 January, sinking while the Torbay lifeboat was on her way to the scene.
Her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Cheque for Over £430, Representing Money Raised Through Sponsored Swimming By Adults and Children, Being Handed Over to Commander F. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., the Newly Appointed
A cheque for over £430, representing money raised through sponsored swimming by adults and children, being handed over to Commander F. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., the newly appointed Chairman of the Institution, by Mr. D. Saxon-Harrold... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Duke of Kent Who Deputised for His Mother the Late Princess Marina Duchess of Kent
The Duke of Kent, who deputised for his mother, the late Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, meeting the wives of members of the Padstow life-boat crew when he named the James and Catherine Macfarlane, a 48-foot 6-inch Oakley life-boat, on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Join the crew
There’s a new reason to be a member of Storm Force, the RNLI club for children. Crew Room is a new RNLI website packed with extra goodies exclusively for Storm Force members.
Members get a password to unlock new RNLI games...
Category: Articles
(Right) the Shore-Party Carries Out a Final Search
(Right) The shore-party carries out a final search of Big Cat as she lies wedged on rocks on Beginnis Island. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below: the Public Get a Chance to Look Round
Below: The public get a chance to look round the new station at the open day. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs