Stranded BELFAST COASTGUARD reported to the honorary secretary of Portpatrick lifeboat station at 0355 on Friday February 26, 1982, that Craigantlet, a merchant vessel on passage from Belfast to Liverpool, laden, had gone ashore off...
Freelance journalist Moira Kerr has donated £300 of her prize money to Oban RNLI, having scooped the title of ‘Diageo Journalist
of the Year’ in the annual Highlands and Islands Media Awards. Moira’s donation could cover the...
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First silver medal for a Blue Peter ILB crew member was awarded to Helmsman David Bliss of St Agnes. After the award was annouced, David Bliss and his crew were the guests of the BBC's Blue Peter television programme, (left to right)... - View image in PDF
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WHITBURN.—The barque Canada Belle, of Whitby, struck on the Whitburn Steel rocks during a gale of wind at S.S.W. on the night of the 23rd Nov., 1872. Fortu- nately her signals of distress were ob- served, and the Thomas Wilson Life-boat,...
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On station ON-1127(47-019) Babs and Agnes Robertson, The Mumbles, 15 July 2006. ON-1096(47-005)ft/)eMw»e Measures withdrawn ON-1281(16-02) Haydn M/7/er, Tenby, 28 April 2006.
ON-1112(47-010) RFA Sir Galahad withdrawn...
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Sir Alec Rose, who opened Southampton Boat Show in September, arrived with Lady Rose for the opening ceremony in Calshot lifeboat, the 40ft Keith Nelson Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde. The lifeboat was accompanied by the frigate... - View image in PDF
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Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 4th of October, 1954, the Wick coastguard telephoned that the motor fishing boat Fisher Boy had run ashore at Brimsness. At 8.45, at low water, the life-boat //. C. J. was launched. The...
AN APPEAL has been launched in Nottinghamshire to raise £150,000 to fund a Brede type lifeboat to be named The Nottinghamshire. In support of the appeal, the ex-Scarborough 37ft Oakley lifeboat /. G. Graves of Sheffield (service...
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SCOTT'S FEAT IN DINGHY NEWS of a boy in the water clinging to an upturned boat on 12th April led to the Mumbles, Glamorganshire coxswain, Mr. Derek Scott, B.E.M., taking out a dinghy as with the strong ebb tide which was running he...
Special rates for RNLI members.
hxample: Borrow O.StX) over # months and the monthly instalment will be 1119.71. Total repayment over (he term £4.309.5f at 14.9% APR. Alternative amounts and repayment periods are...
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