More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Mallaig -- Scotland Division The beautiful setting of Mallaig is evident, with Loch Nevis stretching away to the east. The harbour entrance faces north between Coteachan...
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The 20 Branches with the highest Collection.
WE publish below a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the Branch financial year ending September 30th,...
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THE NEW LIFEBOAT produced through the efforts of thousands of Scouts in 'Operation Lifeboat' is to be stationed at Hartlepool. The allocation of the boat to this station happened by chance to coincide with a decision of the Committee...
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SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT TORBAY DEC. 16TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON. In the early afternoon the schooner Henrietta, of Truro, with a crew of seven men, was carried by the strong spring tides and a gale from the east-north-east to the...
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 28TH, 30TH and 31ST.- NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 28th, the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched to the help of the motor vessel Sandhill, of Newcastle- on-Tyne,...
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT HASTINGS MARCH 31ST. - HASTINGS , SUSSEX, AND DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 2.15 in the morning a message came from Dover asking the lifeboat to launch to the help of a vessel 3,000 yards to the south of...
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• Those who help to launch lifeboats can often be regarded as the forgotten heroes and heroines of a rescue, but at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea they are determined that the women launchers, whose exploits twice brought...
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CAMPBELTOWN.—A new life-boat station has been established at Campbeltown, in Cantyre, on the West Coast of Scotland, and a 30 ft. 6-oared single-banked, selfrighting life-boat was forwarded there from London in June last. The cost of this...
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Aberdovcy, Gwynedd September 12, 27 and November 11.
Abersoch, Gwynedd September 15 and November 14.
Aberystwyth, Dyfed September 5 and October 27.
Arbroath, Tayside October 26.Atlantic...
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In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 230, 238 and 244, the following launches on service were made during the months March, April and May, 1970, inclusive: Abersoch,...
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