Ramsey ladies' guild gave a special party in July for their president, Mrs Ann Ritchie, during which she was presented with the vellum to mark her election as an honorary life governor of the Institution. The presentation was made by... - View image in PDF
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Angle, Dyfed September 12 Appledore, North Devon September 5 and November 4 Arbroath, Angus November 30 Arklow, Co. Wicklow October 15 Arranmore, Co. Donegal September 26 Ballycotton, Co. Cork November 15 Baltimore, Co. Cork October 22 Barra...
Category: Services
Harwich: When, on July 9, the ex revenue cutter L'Atalanta went aground on Cork Sands, with six people on board, the water was too shallow for Harwich's 44' Waveney lifeboat Margaret Graham to approach. Two crew members ran a tow... - View image in PDF
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Mrs Olwyn Lloyd, president of Conway ILB Station and an Honorary Life Governor of the RNLL. - View image in PDF
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The Lifeboat Enthusiasts’ Society’s Handbook 2011 is now available, priced £6 (including postage and packaging).
It lists the names, numbers and locations of all RNLI lifeboats and station equipment,...
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(Above) Forty and more entrants set off on Sunday, October 4, for Soiithend-on-Sea ladies' guild's second tinnual fancy dress sponsored bicycle ride along the seafront from Shore House, Shoebury, where Percy Caron judged the costumes... - View image in PDF
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Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire August 24 Aldeburgh, Suffolk August 2 Amble, Northumberland June 26 and July 1 Angle, Dyfed June 23, July 11 and 31 Anstruther, Fife July 2 Arklow, Co. Wicklow July 25, 29 and August 11 Arranmore, Co. Donegal June 23,...
Category: Services
TWO MEN RESCUED FROM FISHING BOAT Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 10.17 on the morning of the 1st April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was burning flares and needed help. A...
These dramatic photographs capture an incident on Friday 13 January 1989 when the fishing vessel Boy Andrew ran into a narrow gulley at Trebister Ness on Westray in the Shetlands. Lerwick's Arun Soldian took the crew off by Y boat and...
Hythe, Rcsslare Harbour, Berwick-on-Tweed, St. Mary's, Campbeltown and TroonBESIDES the four Inaugural Ceremonies, already described, in which members of the Royal Family took part, five Ceremonies of new Motor Life-boats have been held...
Category: Inaugurations