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Wales Community News

Date: Summer 2018

Volume: 61

Issue: 624 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2018: Wales Community News

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Menai boat run sets new record

Now in its 10th year, East Cheshire Sub-Aqua Club’s Menai Boat Run had a record turnout in March for its weekend of diving and fun – with 278 divers and 35 boats...

Category: Articles

The Four-Masted Iron Ship Mersey (1)

Date: February 1902

Volume: 18

Issue: 203

WALMEB AND KINGSDOWNE, KENT.— On the 27th and 28th December, 1901, a heavy south-westerly gale prevailed in the Channel. The four-masted iron ship Mersey, of Grimstad, was driven on the Goodwin Sands, and in a very short time was engulfed....

A Hundred Years Ago

Date: March 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 375

KESSINGLAXD, SUFFOLK.—In the ac- count we gave, in our 15th Number, of the establishment of a life-boat by the seamen of Scratby, in Norfolk, we stated that we hoped to see this novel feature in the cause of "preservation of life from...

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The Central Appeals Committee

Date: April 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 439

THE Central Appeals Committee, whose chairman is Mr. R. N. Crumbie, 126a High Street, Orpington, Kent, continues to develop new fund raising measures on behalf of the R.N.L.I.

The national sponsored swim, arranged by the...

Category: Committee

Norwegian Life-Boat Anniversary

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

Oslo is an ideal setting for a gathering of life-boats. The city lies at the head of a long narrow fjord with moderately high land on either side. There is no slum area and the quays are only a few minutes walk from the centre of the town....

Category: Articles

The Appeal of the Press

Date: May 1921

Volume: 24

Issue: 273

THE urgent appeal which the Prince of Wales made in his Presidential Address for increased financial support of the Life-boat Service was taken up at once in the Press, and a number of papers supported and reiterated the appeal in their...

Category: Articles

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: August 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 149

ABERYSTWITH.—A new 34-feet, 10- oared Life-boat has been forwarded to this well-known Welsh watering-place, its cost having been defrayed from a hand- some legacy bequeathed to the Institution, through its Manchester Branch, by the late Mr....

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Inshore Lifeboat Services March April and May 1975

Date: Summer 1975

Volume: 44

Issue: 453

Aberdovey, Gwynedd March 31, April 2, 4, May 10, 11 and 27.

Abersoch, Gwynedd April 11, 27 and May 27.

Aberystwyth, Dyfed May 31.Arran (Lamlash), Strathclyde May 11, 24 and 31.

Atlantic...

Category: Services

Lifeboat Services

Date: Autumn 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 490

Scotland North Division Propeller fouled AT 1050 on -Monday June 25, 1984, Pentland Coastguard contacted Wick lifeboat station's deputy launching authority with the news that a salmon coble was in difficulties off Ackergill. At 1100 the...

Category: Services

Shoreline

Date: Summer 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 465

ONE SUNDAY in July I had the great pleasure of meeting lifeboatmen from Blyth, the station on the north east coast of England for which the Rother lifeboat being funded by the Shoreline appeal is destined. Motor Mechanic Colin Cutherbertson,...

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