Lifeboat Services June and July, 1987 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire D class inflatable: June 24 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21 :} Ay 20 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: July 20 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable: July 5 and 31 Aith, Shetland 52ft...
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Recruitment Activities This section of The Lifeboat is often used to describe the different ways in which new RNLI supporters are recruited and, as this year's marketing activities are about to start, it may be helpful to give an...
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(Below) The Humber Lifeboat Appeal's mascot, Bevan Bear, is pictured meeting for the very first time his namesake Brian Bevan (left), and two of the Humber lifeboat crew when he visited the lifeboat station... - View image in PDF
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THE disaster which befell the Kingstown No. 2 Life-boat on the 24th December, 1895, naturally turns people's thoughts to the subject of Life-boat accidents.
Although the proportion of accidents to the launching of the...
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NOVEMBER and DECEMBER 1990 JANUARY and FEBRUARY 1991 Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON 1050: December 12 and January 13 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: November 10, 17 and December 30 Aith, Shetland 52ft Arun ON 1100: November 2 Aldeburgh,...
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MRS. BELLA MATTISON whose portrait is on page 254 is the last of the fisher- wives of Cullercoats to eollect for the Life-boat Service.
The collections started in 1922 when twenty-six of the fisherwives, among them Mrs....
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THE progress in construction and the results in the past year of the work of the Motor-Boats now on the coast are very satisfactory, and we now give a revised Table of the Motor-Boats with the motors installed in them. A comparison •of this...
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The Horton and Port Eynon, Glamorganshire, inshore rescue boat team (see page 466). - View image in PDF
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Poole lifeboats Inner Wheel and Sam and Iris Coles, involved in a sub-zero search of Poole Harbour for two missing fishermen in January. photograph by courtesy of John Buckley. - View image in PDF
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Around and about the RNLI A swarm of Flying Bs The names of the prize winners in the 49th national lottery were pulled from the drum at the Poole headquarters on 30 April by members of the Bentley Drivers' Club.
The...
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