Some mailboats are bigger than others. Some need a serious infrastructure to enable them to deliver. Others can land anywhere. Continue reading
Tag Archives: evacuation
Today: commemorative service from St Kilda to mark 80th anniversary of evacuation
Today, Sunday 29th August 2010 at 3.00pm, Radio na Gaidheal is broadcasting Continue reading
Roy Elwood on Arrochar, tuning torpedoes and climbing the local dance floor
Roy Elwood has written for us before in relation to his convoy duty with HMS Zambesi Continue reading
Oban Lifeboat launches for not-the-fifth onboard birth
The Oban lifeboat launched at 4.00am this morning Continue reading
2009 busiest ever for Scotland’s Lifeboats: support them
With our lifeboats having their busiest year on record (Argyll details below), Continue reading
Arctic Convoy veteran sees beyond today’s Loch Ewe
84 year-old Jack Harrison, ex Royal Navy and from Belper in Derbyshire, Continue reading
Remembrance Day 2009
‘Who bends not his ear to any bell which upon any occasion rings? But who can remove it from that bell which is passing a piece of himself out of this world? Continue reading
Derek Hirst on the evacuation of Soroy as Channel 4 airs Arctic Convoy series
Britain this year is commemorating the 70th anniversary Continue reading