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    Kirkcudbright Lifeboat Station is located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south of the town and royal burgh of Kirkcudbright, at the mouth of the River Dee, in the...
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    motor-powered lifeboat at Kirkcudbright. Balcary Lifeboat Station closed in 1931. In 1884, four fishermen were awarded 15 shillings each by the Kirkcudbright RNLI...
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  • Children. William John Collins, Lifeboat Operations Manager, Kirkcudbright Lifeboat Station, Royal National Lifeboat Institution. For services to Maritime...
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    Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) stations are the bases for the RNLI's fleet of search and rescue lifeboats that cover the coastal waters around...
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    has media related to Atlantic 75 class lifeboats. RNLI Fleet: B-class (Atlantic) Atlantic 75 class lifeboat at Burnham-on-Crouch RNLI Lifeboat Station...
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    lifeboat was placed on station at Kirkcudbright. The Lifeboat Station was set up in 1869. During the 50 years that the lifeboat station was operating there...
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    three lieutenancy areas called Dumfries, Wigtown, and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, broadly corresponding to the three historic counties. The term Dumfries...
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    where the RNLI first established lifeboat stations using smaller inshore watercraft. Atlantic College Lifeboat Station was commissioned by the RNLI in...
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    The Atlantic 85 is part of the B-class of lifeboats that serve the shores of the United Kingdom and Ireland as a part of the RNLI inshore fleet. The Atlantic...
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    The Oakley-class lifeboat refers to two types of self-righting lifeboat operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) around the coast of...
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    Liverpool-class motorised lifeboat was a non-self-righting boat operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) from its stations around the coast of...
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    Talus Atlantic 85 DO-DO launch carriage (category Royal National Lifeboat Institution launch vehicles)
    a Drive On - Drive Off lifeboat launch and recovery carriage used by the RNLI to launch its Atlantic class inshore lifeboats. The design is by Clayton...
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  • National Lifeboat Institution, the largest charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the British Isles, operators of lifeboat station "My Outstretched...
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  • operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution between 1929 and 1965. The need to provide motor lifeboats at stations using carriage launching had...
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    Whitehaven and Kirkcudbright. In the Anglo-American War of 1812, an unsuccessful submarine attack was made on a British warship stationed in New London...
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  • Hugh Cowan Penny, Air Raid Precautions Training Officer, County of Kirkcudbright. Hugh John Perry, JP, District House Coal Officer, Thanet. Eric George...
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    Charlotte Elizabeth was the first motor-powered lifeboat launched in Scotland, and was later stationed in Port Askaig, Islay: she now lies abandoned by...
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  • Authority. John King, Owner/Manager, West Coast Sea Products Ltd., Kirkcudbright. Lieutenant Colonel Robert Fry Kirby, DSO, (Retd.), Provincial Organiser...
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  • collection of farm tools Longhope Lifeboat Museum Brims Orkney Orkney Maritime website History of the Longhope lifeboat station and crew Maeshowe Chambered...
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    Buckinghamshire) Capt Niall A. McNab, Honorary Secretary, Montrose Lifeboat Station, Angus. For services to the RNLI. (Montrose, Angus) Philip Sean McShane...
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  • (Chargehand), Fighting Vehicles Research & Development Establishment, Kirkcudbright, Ministry of Defence. Ida Worley, Deputy County Organiser, Isle of Wight...
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  • in Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire. James Manson, lately Station Honorary Secretary, Troon Lifeboat, Ayrshire. For services to Maritime Safety. Joyce, Mrs...
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  • Antrim) Andrew Campbell. For services to the community in Kirkcudbright. (Kirkcudbright, Dumfries) Andrew John Candler. Adviser, Disability Information...
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  • and its Results". The Cornishman. No. 27. 16 January 1879. p. 7. "The Lifeboat Institution". Freeman's Journal. Dublin. 7 February 1879. "Two of the crew...
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  • Food. Robert Bayne Simpson Gilmour, County Road Surveyor and Engineer, Kirkcudbright County Council. Leslie John Glanfield, Deputy Regional Director, Home...
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  • Labour and National Service. John Miller, Honorary Secretary of Thurso Lifeboat Station. Walter Henry Mills, Assistant Secretary, Railway Executive. Alexander...
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  • was wrecked off St. Bees Head, Cumberland. She was on a voyage from Kirkcudbright to Glasson Dock, Lancashire. Thomas  United Kingdom The ship was driven...
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  • Wright. For voluntary service to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. Clare Margaret, Mrs. Wright, Personal Assistant, Warwickshire...
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  • Lancashire. Brian William Bevan. Superintendent Coxswain, Humber Lifeboat Station. For services to Maritime Safety. James Birnie. For services to Working...
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  • The Standard. No. 9114. London. 24 October 1853. "The North American Station". Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle. No. 2821. Portsmouth. 5 November...
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