Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 5.40 p.m. on 5th September, 1966, a boat was reported to be overdue between Tirea and Coll. The life-boat EMM. Gordon Cubbin left her moorings at 5.50 in a gale force south westerly wind and a rough sea. It was...
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Shortly before midnight, on the 3rd April, in- formation reached the Coxswain of the Life-boat Eliza Avins, that a steamer was ashore on the west end of Plymouth Breakwater. The weather was fine, but it was considered advisable to send the...
Honorary Life-Governor.
The following have been appointed HONOR- ARY LIFE-GOVERNORS of the Institu- tion and have been presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.,...
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AUTUMN 2010
Ms J Pollard-Ovens of West Glamorgan scooped first prize of £5,000 in the Autumn Lifeboat Lottery and elebrated with a visit to her local lifeboat station at Port Talbot.
The other cash prize...
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The RNLI's charter docs not make provision (or the preservation of old lifeboats and equipment, and ihc National Lifeboat Museum. Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charily for this...
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FOUR appeals were made for the Lifeboat Service during the war in "The Week's Good Cause," in the Home Service of the B.B.C. They were made by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, Lord Winster, a member of the...
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AT 9.30 on the evening of the igth January, 1966, the Walton coastguard reported that the motor vessel Mi Amiga, from which Radio Caroline broadcasts were transmitted, appeared to be dragging her anchor. Weather conditions were extremely bad...
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Lifeboat station histories The Story of the Dover Lifeboats The Story of the Swanage Lifeboats The Story of the Scarborough Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author Jeff Morris, the Honorary Archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts...
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THE rigid inflatable Psychedelic Surfer gained a certain amount of publicity in the Round Britain Power Boat race and was, I hear, looked at by some of our IRB crews at the various stopping points around the coast.
When I...
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