Christmas is a time when many people choose to support the RNLI by buying cards and gifts from the charity – but what makes these purchases different?
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Bronze Medal Service at Aberdeen.
ON the evening of Christmas Day, the Aberdeen trawler, George Stroud, with a crew of five, was steaming up the channel into Aberdeen harbour.
When about 200 yards inside...
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BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT HOLYHEAD FEBRUARY 12TH - 13TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. In the early hours of the 12th of February the S.S. Castilian, a 3,000-ton ship of the Ellerman Papayanni Company, entered Church Bay, and let go two anchors. She...
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT CAMPBELTOWN JANUARY 1 9TH. - CAMPBLE- TOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWN-SHIRE. At seven minutes to eight in the morning a message came from the coastguard at Southend that a ship was ashore in front of the...
West Bridgford
YOUNG FUNDRAISER RECOGNISED
Fourteen-year-old Luke Jenkins has been helping to save lives at sea for most of his life. As a baby,
his mother Aisling carried him in a sling on an...
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Words: Anna Burn. Photos: DTH, Naomi Miller, RNLI/(Howth, Larne, Nigel Millard)
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GORLESTON, SUFFOLK AND WELLS, 1 NOKFOLK.—The large sailing Life-boat on j the Gorleston station, which was transferred there from Great Yarmouth in 1883, having become unfit for further service, has recently been replaced by a new boat of...
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AT the Annual Meeting of the Gov- ernors of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on Thursday, the 28th April, Coxswain Howells and the crew of the Fishguard Life-boat were presented by the Prince...
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By VIOLET GLOAG (12J) Ann Street School, Dundee.
What are the Qualities which make a Good Life-boatman ? ONE of the most essential noble qualities that make a good life-boatman is that of bravery. His is not the bravery...
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MR. C. R. BENSTEAD in Shallow Waters (Robert Hale, 21/-), has produced an engaging, lustily written account of almost anything which may happen and has happened in the coastal waters of Britain. His range is extensive.
On...
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