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Scotland Community News
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Photos: The Press and Journal, RNLI/(Buckie, Longhope, Mary Harris)
Local stations mark 50th...
Category: Articles
Rescue By Boarding Boat In Near Gale
AT 6.55 on the evening of Monday, 2nd September, 1963, the mechanic of the Valentia, County Kerry, life-boat station, Joseph Houlihan, saw a small dinghy capsize about 600 yards from the Life-boat storehouse, where he was working at the time...
Category: Services
An Ex-Naval Motor Launch
LAUNCH BROKEN DOWN IN A HEAVY SEA Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 4.0 in the afternoon of January 15th, 1947, the coastguard reported that a vessel, believed to be an ex-naval motor launch, was drifting five miles south of the coastguard...
Local lifesavers for Scilly
RNLI lifeguards spent a week on the Isles of Scilly in September, training a group of locals in surf lifesaving.
The group of 12 can now provide safety cover at the sea-based events that are at the heart of Scillonian life...
Category: Articles
From the Princess Elizabeth
IN 1947 the Princess Elizabeth sent the Institution £180, the balance of her wedding present from Kimberley.
At the beginning of 1948 her wedding dress was displayed in Edinburgh.
The Lord Provost...
Category: Donations
Letters of Thanks to Skippers
FOR a service which led to the rescue of six people from the motor fishing vessel Castle Dawn, Mr. Samuel McCullough, skipper of the motor fishing vessel Be Ready, and Mr. Ernest McKee, skipper of the motor fishing vessel Ambitious, have...
Category: Services
When the Willie Woodhave Public House was Demolished During the Redevelopment of South Shields Market Place this Fine Painted Window of the 18th-century Life-Boat Designer, William Woodhave, was Saved and Placed in South Shields Museum
When the Willie Woodhave public house was demolished during the redevelopment of South Shields market place this fine painted win- dow of the 18th-century life-boat designer, William Woodhave, was saved and placed in South Shields... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
China
PiEii, LANCASHIRE.—At 6 A.M. on the 4th September the William Eirkett Lifeboat was launched in reply to signals, to the assistance of the barque China, of Porsgrund, Norway. The boat was towed by the steam-tug Ajax, and when about two miles,...