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Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun ON 1050: July 30 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 2, 10, 25 (three times) and July 27 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 7, July 5, 19, 25, 28 and 30 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: June 1, 2, 12, July 1,...
Category: Services
Features
spirit Incredible journey The RNLI’s Chief Executive spent an especially productive Summer last year. Carol Waterkeyn finds out how A senior manager takes a cycle ride. Quite unremarkable until you realise that the man in question is the...
Category: Articles
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (The figures refer to the numbers of the Life-boats detailed on pages 50-01.) A Friend, per Pembroke Cox, Mrs. E. E., the late, 116. Hopwood, S. W., Esq., the Eestell, W. T.,...
Category: Donations
A Car
Car over cliff LATE ON THE EVENING OF THURSDAY JULY 24, 1986, the coastguard cliff rescue team were called to Port Soderick Bay, 2'/2 miles south of Douglas on the Isle of Man. A car with four people inside had driven over a 330 ft cliff...
At Their Army Air Day 1973 Last July at Their Base In Middle Wallop Hampshire the Army Air Corps Raised More Than £2000 for the Rnli the Money Is to Be Used at Th
At their Army Air Day 1973 last July at their base in Middle Wallop, Hampshire, the Army Air Corps raised more than £2,000 for the RNLI. The money is to be used at the inshore lifeboat station, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. In appreciation... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ferm
Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 9.20 On the night of the 1st of March, 1957, a member of the life-boat crew reported that he had seen a distress signal near the mouth of the River Ythan. The Belhelvie coastguard was immediately contacted but...
The Wood for the Trees
The air is heavy with the unmistakable smell of sawn timber and Stockholm tar and jangles gently to the sound of a distant bandsaw as I watch a boatbuilder ease a plank into place around the gaunt frames of an 18ft launch under construction....
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.— Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....
Category: Medals
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The Fairey Owners' Club (Foc)
The Fairey Owners' Club (FOC) is one of the UK's most active owners' clubs and holds various well-attended events and rallies throughout the year in aid of charity. Club members, who are owners and enthusiasts of Fairey Marine... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs