ARDROSSAN. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sent to Ar- drossan, on the west coast of Scotland, a new and larger boat, fitted with two drop keels, in the place of the one stationed there a few years since. The new boat is 37...
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(Right) Burton-on-Trent branch president and a committee member plan to visit all English mainland lifeboat stations on their BMW motorcycles. They will start from the RNLI stand at the Royal Show being held at the National Agricultural... - View image in PDF
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HAD BROKEN DOWN Troon, Ayrshire. At 7.27 p.m. on 5th May, 1964, the Kildonan coastguard told the life-boat coxswain of a Lamlash police report that a small boat was in difficulties 200 yards north of Holy Isle buoy. The life-boat Glencoe,...
Gangsters for a good cause - L to R: Mike Edkm, Nikki Edkin, John Cleave, Barbara Hawkins, Mike Daley and Sylvie Daley.. - View image in PDF
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The Institution has received three gifts, amounting to £3, from the sale of six onions..
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Two intrepid travellers, John Ford and Melvyn Webster, made a 1,000 mile dash last October from St Helier, Jersey, to Aith, Shetland, and raised £2,250 for the RNLI.
First they flew from St Helier to Southampton, this... - View image in PDF
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APRIL 24TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea, hut nothing was found.- Rewards, £8 11s..
YACHT RESCUED At 6.10 p.m. on i2th June, 1965, the motor yacht Fortune II was observed flying a distress signal. Her position was three quarters of a mile east-south-east of the harbour. There were light variable airs with a smooth sea and...
The Royal National Life-boat Institution Rescues Numberless Lives; Incites Really Noble, Laudable Inquiries; Reckons Necessary Lofty Ideas; Rewards News; Laments Indolence; Relieves Nautical Labourers Immediately;...
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