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Calendar On Sale Now – helping our crew get their kit back on
The St Abbs market traders have come together with the crew of the St Abbs Lifeboat to create a cheeky charity calendar for 2016. The photographs were taken back in…
Read MoreWe have begun to raise funds for a new St Abbs Lifeboat
The village Community of St Abbs, Berwickshire has now formally agreed to launch a funding appeal in order to operate an independent Lifeboat Station at St Abbs. At a packed…
Read MoreSt Abbs Lifeboat – Going independent
So tommorrow at 9am the St Abbs RNLI Lifeboat Station will close. However this is not the end of the campaign to “Save St Abbs Lifeboat” we’re now looking at…
Read More“RNLI urged to reverse plan to close Scottish lifeboat station” article in the Financial Times
The Financial Times has published an article today (21st August 2015) by journalist Emily Cadman, titled “RNLI urged to reverse plan to close Scottish lifeboat station”. Ewan Gibson, a local…
Read MoreSt Abbs Lifeboat comes to the assistance of one of Our Fishermen
Our fishermen are the backbone of the community. They wake early before the sun has risen and head down to the harbour to take to the sea single-handed in their…
Read MorePaul Boissier – We’re travelling the 450 miles to deliver the “Save St Abbs Lifeboat” petition to you personally
The petition will be hand-delivered to the RNLI HQ in Poole next Tuesday 1st September. The sheer numbers of people who are deeply concerned about this proposed closure demands that…
Read MoreThank You – RAF 202 Squadron Search and Rescue
The RNLI are still proposing to close the St Abbs Lifeboat Station on the 8th September and then on the 1st October the RAF Search and Rescue (SAR) Helicopter service…
Read MoreSt Abbs Lifeboat Searches for Missing Surfer, Joined by RAF Sea King
The St Abbs lifeboat was called out today 6:20pm (23rd August 2015) to search for a missing surfer at Coldingham Sands. The St Abbs lifeboat was joined in the search…
Read More“10,000 supporters implore: keep St Abbs lifeboat station open” article in The Times
The Times has published a two page article today (21st August 2015) by journalist Kenny Farquharson, titled “10,000 supporters implore: keep St Abbs lifeboat station open”. We’ve tried to be…
Read MoreComing to the Rescue Again. This time for kayakers in distress
The lifeboat that the RNLI executive think they don’t need was called out yet again at 2.00pm today (13th August 2015). When one member of a group of three kayakers…
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