MARCH, APRIL AND MAY 1991 Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON 1050: April 8 D class: April 21 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: March 24 and April 3 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 1 (three times) Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: March 13, April...
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Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ftArun: Octobers Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: September 19 and 26 Aith, Shetland 52ft Burnett: November 4 Amble, Northumberland 37ft 6in Rather: September 20 (twice) and October 16 Angle, Dyfed 46ft 9in Watson:...
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John Handcock Williams, of Tenby, who died last year at the age of 82. He was an officer of the life-boat for 26 years, retiring in 1931, and was one of the seven life-boatmen who took part, 25 years ago, in the Institution's Centenary... - View image in PDF
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Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.
Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels...
To the foreign honours conferred on the Institution on the occasion of its Centenary has now to be added a silver medal from Greece. On 12th January of this year the Naval A.D.C. to the Greek President wrote : " The President has...
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To mark more than £10,000 raised by Devenish Brewery for the RNLI a special presentation was made by Chay Blyth, the round the world yachtsman, on behalf of the company to Rear-Admiral W. J. Graham, director RNLI, at Weymouth lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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Four more volumes from Jeff Morris, the Honorary Archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society, chronicling the life and times of various lifeboat stations - this time taking in three stations in England and one in...
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In continuation of the description of the Anglesea Life-boat stations, we have now to give an account of Rhoscolyn, Penmon, Llanddwyn, aud Moelfre. Before doing so, however, we have to correct a mistake as to the Holyhead boat, which, in...
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W ith one of the world's loveliest, albeit most rugged, coastlines - some 2,650km in length and encompassing waters ranging in potential dan yr from the relatively benign Skagerrak. via the remoteness of the cod banks off the Lofotens....
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Guyana has become the latest location to suffer flooding - and the RNLI was there to help. Around the world it has been a year of huge waves and violent storms. Thousands lost their lives in the Indian Ocean tsunami while, at home, hurricane...
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