The Annual Meetings The RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Annual Presentation of Awards for 1997 will again take place in the Barbican Hall, London.
The meetings will be held on Thursday 15 May, the AGM at 1130 and the...
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a r o u n d and a b o u t t h e RNLI A fifty-first occasion for lottery draw To mark the RNLI's 51st national lottery, Brigadier Mike Wingate-Gray QBE MC and Bar, who served with the 1st Battalion, The Black Watch in the 51st Highland...
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Atlantic College, Glamorganshire January 21.
Beaumaris, Anglesey December 26 and February 4.
Broughty Ferry, Angus January 3 and February 15.
Conway, Caernarvonshire December 24.
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25 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT December 1965 Scottish Station Closed The life-boat station at Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, was closed on 30th September. The life-boat had not been called out on service for nearly four years, and it...
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On November 19, 1933, Longhope lifeboat went to help Icelandic trawler Geysir of Reykjavik, grounded on Torness Point, Pentland Firth. Among 15 people rescued was 19-year-old Sigridur Johannesdottir, daughter of one of the boat's owners.... - View image in PDF
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75 years ago the British Navy attempted an audacious wartime operation. It would change the course of the Second World War – and challenge our lifeboats to tackle a very different kind of...
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Aberdovey, Gwynedd September 3, 19 and October 9 Abersoch, Gwynedd September 9, 10, 23, October 16 and November 26 Aldeburgh, Suffolk October 23 Amble, Northumberland September 15 Appledore, North Devon September 4 and 16 Atlantic College,...
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Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 12.58 early on the morning of the 8th of November, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the trawler Sea Hunter, which had a crew of twelve, had wire- lessed that she was leaking off the Shiant Islands, and...
A fascinating glimpse of the Lifeboat archives 100 years ago The winter 1906 edition of the Journal revealed how John Owston, Coxswain of the Scarborough lifeboat, met King Edward VII after being asked by Lord Londesborough to assist a...
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