Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At noon on the 17th of November, 1960, the life- boat coxswain received a telephone message that a sick person on the island of Rhum needed hospital treatment urgently. There was a strong south- westerly wind with a...
At 8.22 p.m. on 20th August, 1966, a small fishing boat was reported in difficulties off the Island of Cava. There was a light north westerly breeze with a calm sea. The tide was flooding. The lifeboat Archibald and Alexander M. Paterson...
The leading article in Yachting & Boating for 2Oth April, 1967, had this to say: 'We . . . hear complaints that some of the rescued do not wish to be rescued. But like the surgeon, the life-boatman diagnoses and then operates ....<...
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The Industrial Life Offices Association have made a film about life insurance and there will be 500 showings during the winter to audiences such as women's institutes, community associations, church and chapel social groups and so on.<...
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Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At i p.m. on 23rd August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an 18-foot yacht had capsized off Fontagary and three people were clinging to her. The life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was...
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At n.io a.m. on 30th August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that there was a sick boy on the isle of Colonsay. The life-boat Francis W. Wptherspoon of Paisley slipped her moorings at 11.35 in a fresh...
Official visits The RNLI was host to several visitors in the early part of 1990, each with a different interest in the Institution and its work.
On 24 January Patrick McLoughlin MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State...
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Mrs E. E. Currie, who gave to the Institution the 52ft Arun relief lifeboat Edith Emilie..
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The launch of the Season...
MOTORBOATS £9000 Win a boat Competition.
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Silver medals for outstanding gallantry were presented to three Hfeboatmen at the annual presentation of awards on May 22: to (/.) Coxswain Kenneth Voice, Shoreham Harbour, for the service to the Greek cargo vessel Athina B on January 21,... - View image in PDF
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