In winter, on ten to fifteen days out of every month, winds will blow at force 7 or above around the north-eastern tip of Scotland. The waters of the Pentland and Moray Firths are some of the most notorious in the world. The mainland...
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Winning fundraising friendsHarmony in Exeter An excellent way for branches and guilds to raise money within their community is to ask groups, clubs, businesses and individuals to do a fundraising event for their branch or guild.
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THE following account of a disastrous shipwreck which recently occurred near Dundalk, on the east coast of Ireland, cannot fail to be interesting to all who peruse it. We think it deserving of record on three accounts —1st. As an instance of...
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• The Inflatable Boat Book by Kendall McDonald and Malcolm Todd (Pelham Books, £3.75) provides a useful instruction reference for all inflatable boat users and covers a wide field in the present production lines available on the...
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Fast afloat lifeboats at Jersey and Guernsey: (above) 44ft Waveney Thomas James King, stationed at St Helier, and (left) 52ft Arun Sir William Arnold, stationed at St Peter Port.
photograph by courtesy of'Guernsey... - View image in PDF
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Nov. 6TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
It had been reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the life-boat could find nothing. - Rewards, £14 9s. 6d..
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Right Reverend Professor James A. Whyte, paid a visit to Aberdeen lifeboat station on 7 February.
The Moderator was introduced to Captain Brian Atkinson,...
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WE publish below a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the financial year ending the 30th Sep- tember, 1930. Fourteen are English, four Scottish, and two...
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The Life-boat appears again after an absence of just seven years. Its last number was dated April, 1940. In that month Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. At the end of the next month the British Expeditionary Fotce was brought off from the...
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IT GAVE ME great pleasure to be elected Chairman of the Institution at the meeting of the Committee of Management on June 28 in succession to Major- General Ralph Farrant. As I am sure you are all aware, he has left the Institution in...
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