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Letters
Medal rescue recalled With reference to an article in your Winter 1986/87 journal The RNLl in Ireland you may be interested in a conversation I have recently had with my husband's 104-year-old grandfather.
When he was...
Category: Correspondence
Centenary Celebration
Japanese Lifeboat centenary commemorated at conference By Lt Cdr Brian Miles Director of the RNLI In July 1924, representatives from eight overseas lifeboat societies met in London at the invitation of the RNLI for a conference which was...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
ONCE AGAIN, to look back at the Boat Show is to look back on eleven happy and successful days. With the help of volunteer Shoreline members on the RNLI stand and of our friends at the Midland Bank stand, we enrolled 528 new members and a...
Category: Articles
For Some Time It Has Been the Practice of Apprentice Training Schools to Build
For some time it has been the practice of apprentice training schools to build clinker boarding boats for the Institution to an RNLI design. It is a practice of mutual benefit because clinker is the most skilled form of boat building, and so... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Autumn Winner Kirsten Ferguson
Autumn winner Kirsten Ferguson said during her visit to Anstruther lifeboat station: ‘My husband and I are not sailors but I grew up in Denmark and recognise how important the sea is. You hope you will never need a lifeboat, but it is good... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Miss E M Lloyd-Jones Organising Secretary Scotland Presents Prizes for the Rnli Art Competition Arranged By Grangemouth Branch for Local Schoolchildren the 300 An
Miss E. M. Lloyd-Jones organising secretary, Scotland, presents prizes for the RNLI art competition arranged by Grangemouth branch for local schoolchildren. The 300 and more pictures and models submitted were judged by Frank Donnan.View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the Road
Mobile Training Unit No. 7 (MTU 7) is one of eight RNLI mobile training units which are dedicated to providing training for lifeboat crews at their own stations. The units vary in size from a small van (MTU 8) to large mobile classroom units...
Category: Articles
Unsung Heroes
Mary Jacinta Casey
How did you first get involved with the RNLI? When I was growing up, we always had a collection box in our pub, and I used to help count the money!
What does being an RNLI...
Category: Articles
Letters
Letters...
tion by the Institution, i.e. medals, vellums and letters of thanks, but when there is extra space we will always try to include additional stories.
Unsung praises I refer to the News Point on...
Category: Correspondence
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St. Ives, Cornwall. At 2.43 p.m. on 2ist August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a man had fallen off., or had been washed off, the rocks at Clodgy Point. At 2.45 the IRB launched in a fresh west-north-westerly breeze and rough sea. The...