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THREE LIFE-BOATMEN OVERBOARD NOVEMBER 9TH - 10TH. - MONTROSE, AND BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. Shortly after six in the evening an Admiralty tug was bombed from the air. The Montrose coxswain saw the bombs dropping. Thinking that the life-boat...

Mrs Pat Richards, Founder Chairman of Llantwit Major branch from 1969 until her death. She was awarded the Gold badge in 1996.. - View image in PDF

TAKE THE FERRY from Scrabster Harbour to Stromness. Cross the Pentland Firth from the north coast of Caithness to Mainland, Orkney, and already there is a growing feeling of vast distance, of wide horizons. A majestic, ponderous swell rolls...

AT no recent period have the disastrous effects of storms been more severely than during the hurricane of the 2nd and 3rd December last.

Its results were felt, more or less, in all parts of the country. About 11 A.M. on...

In the last issue of the Lifeboat you were updated on the state of the RNLI rescue fleet. But this is not the full picture as it misses out major pieces of RNLI rescue equipment. Some have been around for years, some are new arrivals, but...

AITH'S 26 HOURS' SEARCH.

Aith, Shetlands. — 9th October, 1939. Information was received through the coastguard at 1.45 P.M.

that the s.s. Vistula, of Gothenburg, Sweden, had been...

Letters (from page 208) as crew, was out on service for If hours.

First she towed to safety two fishing dinghies, both with swamped outboard engines and both with four people aboard; one was taken to the weather shore at...