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An American Air Ambulance
On July zyth. an American air ambulance struck the cliffs of the Mull of Galloway and crashed on the shore. She was going to America, by way of Prestwick, and she had wounded soldiers from Normandy and nurses on board.
The...
Category: Articles
April (1)
APRIL MEETING SCOURIE, SUTHERLAND. On the afternoon of the 26th February, 1941, a motor boat, with a crew of four, went out line-fishing near Handa Island. On the following morning the boat had not returned, and enquiries were made, without...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Quiz Answers (From Page 18)
Lifeboat quiz answers (from page 18) 1—(a) Aith, Shetlands;(b) Lowestoft, Suffolk; (c) St Helier, Jersey; and (d) Valentia, Co. Kerry.
2—The first lifeboat designed to work under sail was the Frances Ann, built at Lowestoft...
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New Maiden In South London
You would have to have exceptional hearing to claim that New Maiden in South London was within the sound of Bow Bells, but this did not deter Alice Hodgkin (r), catering manager of Spillers Foods, New Maiden from organising a Cockney evening... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Araxian
Man overboard A large crowd gathered at Filey on 2 July 2001 for the naming ceremony of the station's new D class lifeboat Rotary District 1120. They got rather more than they expected, however, when a full-scale rescue took place in...
Insight
INSIGHT The RnlI’s Vision is to be recognised as the most effective, innovative and dependable lifeboat and lifeguard service.
Here are just a handful of incidents from around the UK and RoI to give an insight into the...
Category: Articles
A Radio Controlled Life-Boat
During the 'open day' arranged by the Port of Liverpool branch in aid of the R.N.L.I., an interesting demonstration was given in which a model life-boat aided a model trawler on the boating lake at Hoylake.
The...
Category: Articles
New Life-Boats
MABLETHORPE (LINCOLNSHIRE).—In a former number of the Life-boat Journal (217), it was mentioned that the boat at this station had been replaced by a new one of the Liverpool type, 36 ft.
long by 9 ft. wide, and that she was...
Category: Inaugurations
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CAHORE, IRELAND.—A branch of the Na- tional Life-boat Institution has been founded at Cahore, on the coast of Wexford, Ireland.
The Blackwater Bank, extending for many miles along this part of the coast, has been from time...
Category: Articles
A Stormy Passage
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 50 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to August 31st, 1934 63,721 A Stormy Passage.
By COMMANDER J. M. UPTON,...
Category: Articles