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JANUARY MEETING SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT RHOSNEIGIR RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY. About 11.30 in the morning of the 28th of August, 1941, a British bombing aeroplane crashed in the sea off Rhosneigir.

A gale was blowing from the...

WHEN Messrs. J. Samuel White, the famous shipbuilders of Cowes, delivered the Aberdeen life-boat in June, 1951, they had completed their hundredth life-boat for the Institution.

Their life-boat work goes back over a hundred...

Richard (Dick) Walsh, coxswain of Rosslare Harbour lifeboat from 1946 to 1974. He joined the ere w in 1938 and was bowman until 1941, then second coxswain from 1941 to 1946. He was awarded the Silver Medal in 1954..

Doctor Dick Rutherfurd MB, vice chairman of Kirkcudbright lifeboat station branch. Dr Rutherfurd had been involved with the station since 1956, serving as honorary secretary, honorary medical adviser and committee member. He was awarded a...

ON THE NIGHT of December 9, 1886, the German barque Mexico, bound from Liverpool for Guayaquil, Ecuador, with a general cargo and a crew of 12, was wrecked in the Ribble Estuary on the north west coast of England.

Three...

Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 20 May 1994 show that so far during 1994: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 446 times (an average of 3 launches a day) 146 lives were saved (an average of one a day) Some 11 % of all...

In hurricane force winds, Ballycotton lifeboat crew launched to the aid of eight men on a lightship near Daunt Rock. 70 years on, it's a feat of courage and endurance still seen as one of the most demanding rescues in RNLI...