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Tuano
DINGHY'S CREW SAVED At 9.40 p.m. on 3ist July, 1964, the coxswain noticed that a sailing dinghy was being driven on to the lee shore of Ireland's Eye by a near gale force westsouth- westerly wind. It was low...
Blue Jacket
WEXFORD.—At 9 P.M. on the 18th March signals of distress were observed,from a vessel on the North end of the Dogger Bank. The Civil Service No. 1 Life-boat was immediately launched, and proceeded to render assistance. On arriving alongside...
Farmers stranded
12 February: Clifden Four experienced fish farmers were working at the mouth of Clifden Bay in Galway when a storm left them stranded and they called for assistance. The Clifden inshore lifeboat rode through huge...
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Aiva
Lone yachtsman saved PORT ERIN'S 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat Osman Gabriel launched at 1502 on April 18, 1987 following reports from Ramsey Coastguard of the yacht Aiva in difficulties and taking water 10 miles north west of the Calf...
The RNLI and me: Alexander McCall Smith
When bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith isn’t penning adventures set in Scotland and Botswana, he plots his own dramatic course on the water …
You published five books in 2015 alone – how do you manage to be so...
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Fairey Allday Marine
Our formula for export success- BUILD BETTER BOATS Fairey Allday Marine Limited is the United Kingdom's most versatile builder of small craft.
Fairey Allday craft are in service in the UK with the Royal Navy, Army,...
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The Long In the Shorts
In September John Cook, honorary secretary of Claygate branch, and Dave Avey from Brighton, undertook a long, 72-mile sponsored walk around the island of Malta.
Sponsored by Monarch Airlines the two friends raised... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Stanlake (1)
MAY 24TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. At 6.15 P.M. it was reported by the coastguard that the firing of rifles or rockets had been heard in Broad Bay. Later a message was received from another source that a vessel was ashore near the...
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 12.—Mr. W. J. Burden, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Teignmouth Life-Boat Station
THERE has been a Life-boat of the Institution at Teignmouth, in South Devon, for 76 years, and for well over half that time Mr. W. J. Burden (who is one of three honorary Life-boat workers of the same name) has been its Honorary Secretary...
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Unity
— The motor life-boat J. and W. put out at 10.40 A.M. on the 12th March, in a moderate N.E. gale, with a heavy sea, to search for the motor fishing boat Unity, which had been reported to be in distress with an engine breakdown about seven...