In May 2020 the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships (ADLS) plans another return to Dunkirk to commemorate the 80th anniversary[…]
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Tag: RNLI
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Whitby Lifeboat ‘Robert Whitworth’
We bring two tales of rescue from Whitby, one at sea and one after dragging the lifeboat ‘Robert Whitworth’ overland[…]
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Lifeboat ‘Lucy Lavers’ returns to Dunkirk: 2015
‘Lucy Lavers’ is a member of the ADLS. It is hoped she’ll be able to join the 80th Anniversary Return[…]
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RNLI introduces cork lifejackets, 1861
Freeman was sole survivor of a tragic disaster on 9 February 1861, when his 12 fellow crew members drowned. This[…]
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85 lives saved from ‘Rohilla’: November 1914
In 1914 the Whitby lifeboatmen, along with four other boats from the treacherous north east coast of England, saved 85[…]
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Ferocious storms and fearless lifeboat crews: 1880
The Coxswain and crew of the RNLI lifeboat ‘Lady Leigh’, ably assisted by the ‘rocket apparatus’ of the Coastguards, spent[…]
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Grace Darling: wreck of the ‘Forfarshire’ (1838)
A dramatic, well-documented rescue takes place on the Farne Islands, off the Northumberland coast, 7 September, 1838. The rescue of[…]
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A fateful last trip to Sula Sgeir: ‘Mayflower’ 1952
Hector Morrison (Eachainn), last survivor of the ‘Mayflower’ crew stranded on Sula Sgeir when the vessel was lost, reflects on[…]
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