Stranraer: Representatives oflnd Coope Alloa Brewery Company and the Co-operative Society in Scotland, Mr West, Mr McCulloch, Mr Young and Mr Thomson, were present at Stranraer boathouse on Saturday July 23 for the handing over of the new D... - View image in PDF
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(Above) After her naming ceremony at Shoreham on Thursday, May 2, by Lady Egremont, president of the ladies' lifeboat guilds, Mary Gabriel, 37' 6" Rather Class, was taken to her station, Hoylake, in Cheshire. A service of... - View image in PDF
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Montrose, Angus, and Anstruther, Fifeshlre.—On the afternoon of the 9th of February, 1953, a wireless message reached the Montrose life-boat station from the fishing boat Angus Rose, which had a crew of two, that she had lost her rudder, but...
ON Sunday, ist November, 1964, the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest of all life-boat services was commemorated at Whitby. This was the rescue from the hospital ship Rohilla.
The Rohilla, a vessel of 7,365 tons...
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Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. — At 11.23 in the morning of the 14th of October, 1951, pilots reported that a yacht with a body in tow was off Shoreham, and needed help. At 11.28 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched in calm...
Saved on the edge of operating conditions Two Vellums awarded to Torbay crewTwo Torbay lifeboatmen, Helmsman Nigel Crang and crew member Simon James have been awarded the the RNLI's Thanks on Vellum for saving the lives of three young...
FIREMEN TO THE RESCUE WHEN the 25-foot fishing vessel Bounty of Jersey, G.I., with four men aboard, was reported in difficulties at 8.21 p.m. on 24th July, 1970,* off the Rigdon Bank in St. Ouen's Bay, Jersey, the St. Helier life-boat...
DF bearing OBAN COASTGUARD reported to the deputy launching authority of Islay lifeboat station at 0216 on Wednesday February 16 that the fishing vessel Girl Norma had broken down to the west of Jura.
The night was dark and...
In 1941 seventy-oae golf clubs held competitions for the Life-boat Service and tkesf competitions contributed over £282..
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THOSE OF OUR MEMBERS who are lucky enough to be boat owners will no doubt be enjoying the start of the season with, this year, its unusually warm and sunny spring weekends. We wish you good sailing.
Now that the membership...
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