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Long Service Ladies
At the recent AGM of Anstruther lifeboat womens' guild, President Edith Clark, wife of lifeboat station's coxswain, John Clark, handed out eight long service certificates to guild members for service to the station.. - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY 10TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
Red flares had been reported, but nothing was found and it was thought that a flare on land might have been mistaken for a flare at sea. - Rewards, £13 1s..
A Naval Vessel
AUGUST 27TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
A naval vessel, towing a target for the army, was reported to have fouled some buoys, but she got clear without help.- Rewards, £13 16s..
Anu
FEBRUARY 7TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. The steamer Anu, of Esthonia, had sunk after being mined, and some survivors had landed at Buddon Ness, but the life-boat searched for others without result. - Rewards, £6 12s..
Scottish Fishermen Return Rewards
Twenty Scottish fishermen from Argyllshire, Wigtownshire and Arran have returned as gifts to the Institution nearly £30 which they had received from it for going out to the help of crashed aeroplanes. Ten of the men had gone to the...
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Guild Honorary Secretary, -- M.B.E.
Mrs. Hilda C. Brown, who has been honorary secretary of the Withernsca Ladies' Life-boat Guild since 1926, and was awarded the Institution's gold badge in 1937, has been made an M.B.E. for her many public services during the war..<...
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Three special station birthdays
Three lifeboat crews are celebrating proud RNLI histories this year, as Fowey, Fleetwood and The Lizard stations turn 150.
One remarkable rescue for Fowey came in 1865, with 13 people saved from the barque Dryden and 9...
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A Boat (4)
NOVEMBER 22ND. - PETERHEAD ABERDEENSHIRE. A workman from a shipbuilding yard had reported that a boat had capsized off North Head, Peterhead, but nothing was found, and it was thought that what had been seen was the Broughty Ferry life-boat...
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
APRIL 10TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
The life-boat put out to help search for a rubber dinghy from a crashed aircraft about forty-two miles east-by-south of Wick, but was recalled. - Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..