The Institution wishes to express its cordial thanks to Messrs. Cadbury, Messrs. Fry, and Messrs. Rowntree for their gifts of thirty tins of chocolate each, which have been sent for use in the Lifeboats. For a number of years these three...
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Launches 53. Lives rescued 27.
MAY 1ST. - CROMARTY. At 7.40 A.M. a message was received from the Cromarty coastguard that two airmen had been seen in the sea off Brora, and at 8.20 A.M. the motor life-boat James Macfee was...
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JULY 27TH - 28TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Shortly after six in the evening the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had crashed on the foreshore at Cairngarrock Bay. The weather was fine, with a slight north-north-west breeze and a...
The 52ft Arun lifeboat Richard Evans at her naming. In background. Galway's 52ft Burnett lifeboat Frank Spiller Locke. photographs by courtesy of Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
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JULY 10TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. At 7 P.M. a yacht was seen to strike the Caister Shoal, near the south end of Caister Beach, knock off, and drift ashore. A slight northerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy ground swell. The pulling and...
Trawler talked in EYEMOUTH LIFEBOAT STATION honorary secretary received a message from the harbour master at 0030 on Thursday May 1, saying that the trawler Glen Urquhart, which had been bound for fishing grounds, was taking water and making...
Far flung fame: Alistair Mdntosh of The United Kingdom Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific sent in this photograph to show the extent of the RNLI influence. The small boy in the middle of the picture is wearing an RNLI tee-shirt.... - View image in PDF
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