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JANUARY 9TH. - ABERDEEN. At 11.40 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that machine-gun fire and the sound of bomb explosions, from an attack by enemy aircraft on shipping, had been heard east of Downie Point. A fresh S.S.W. wind...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 9.15 in the evening of the 6th of June, 1948, the police reported that a yacht was drag- ging her moorings in a dangerous posi- tion at the mouth of Lymington river, with one man on board, and the motor life-boat...

RNLI lifeguards on Fistral Beach, Cornwall, volunteered to carry out weekend patrols without pay last Winter. It was a good job they were there on 7 November 2010, when a bodyboard instructor carried out a headcount after leaving the water –...

RAC/RNLI The RAC has joined forces with the RNLI to promote safety on the road and at sea. As well as publicising a wide range of local, regional, national and business-linked fundraising activities, the RAC is offering RNLI supporters...

On the 8th November the Life-boat BeaucJiamp saved, in circumstances of considerable difficulty and danger, the crew of eight men from the lugger Palestine, of Banff, which, while making for Lowestoft from the fishing-grounds, stranded on...

NEVER probably in the history of our country has public feeling been so moved and sorrow so universally felt and ex- pressed as in the last few days, conse- quent on the almost sudden, and world- wide deplored death of the most beloved of...

Last year, RNLI lifeboats rescued 8,313 people around our coasts (the highest number in our history), while RNLI lifeguards assisted 18,775 on more than 150 of the UK’s busiest beaches. That’s 27,088 people who are grateful for your...