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RNLI News
HM The Queen visits Fraserburgh station Monday 22 June was a proud day for Fraserburgh as HM The Queen toured the town's lifeboat station.
In her capacity as Patron of the RNLI, she received a cheque for £305,613,...
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M.V. Futurity and Little Slam (1)
Collision A COLLISION IN DENSE FOG between MV Futurity and the motorboat Little Slam some three miles south east of Littlehampton was reported to the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 1510 on Saturday May 12, 1979....
On the Variations of the Reading of the Barometer and the Weather In the Months of October and November, 1864
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations in the readings of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, are shown in the annexed diagram, including 46 days, ending the 30th of November, daring which period...
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A Novel Life-Saving Dress
THE number of valuable lives lost every year by drowning is a fact not sufficiently realised, or it would certainly receive greater attention than it at present ap- pears to do.
During every summer, distressing ac- counts...
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A NEW LEASE OF LIFE
They were crying out to be saved.’ It’s the kind of phrase you’ll hear from our lifeboat crews after
a rescue. But there is another group who share this noble narrative – the lifeboat restorers
They’re depending...
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A Year of Endeavour
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the RNLI, brandies and guilds were asked to make some special fund raising effort to help raise the six million pounds needed for the vast boat building programme on which the Institution has embarked...
Category: Donations
The Fund Raisers
Runs for fun As part of their lifeboat day '85 Tighnabruaich and District guild organised a raft race fun run, when competitors had to wear fancy dress. The first prize was given to staff from the Royal Hotel who entered the race as...
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Lifeboat Services from Page 230
from page 230 the trawler. He was landed at Walney Airfield at 0102 and transferred to North Lonsdale Hospital.
The honorary medical adviser and two lifeboat crew members remained aboard the trawler because of the sea...
Category: Services
An American Thunderjet Fighter (1)
Ramsgate, Walmer, and Dover, Kent.
—At 10.8 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1951, the Ramsgate coastguard telephoned to the Rams- gate life-boat station that an aeroplane, an American Thunderjet fighter, had...
People and Places
Lottery The RNLFs national lottery, which has so far raised more than £1 million for the Institution's funds, now has increased prize money on offer for the 20 winners of each quarter's draw.
The first prize...
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