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Crew help celebrate Anniversary

12/12/2019

Anstruther's crew and Stormy Sam led a parade to celebrate the Scottish Fisheries Museum 50th anniversary. The Museum, opposite the lifeboat station has cooperated with the station in the renovation of the ex-lifeboat "J and M Walker", which served at Anstruther from 1904 to 1933.

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RNLI Kingdom of Fife is Relieved

28/11/2019

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The RNLI Relief Fleet Mersey Class lifeboat, 12-008, "The Lincolnshire Poacher", arrived at Anstruther to relieve the resident "Kingdom of Fife". The two boats exercised together in and around Anstruther harbour before The Kingdom of Fife departs to Eyemouth for engine refit..

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RNLI Shop's Christmas offers

26/11/2019

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RNLI Anstruther's shop is the leading fund-raising retail outlet in Scotland. It is so popular with visitors it will remain open throughout the winter. It is hoped that it will enable the enthusiastic team of volunteers to exceed last year's record profits for the RNLI.

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The shop is decked out for the festive season.
Opening hours are 12 noon to 4 pm daily

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Anstruther RNLI Volunteer wins three American literary awards

11/11/2019

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Anstruther RNLI Volunteer wins three American book awards for his debut novel 'A Distant Field: A Novel of World War I'. Richard MacDonald, a volunteer crew member on Anstruther's all-weather lifeboat, Kingdom of Fife, and aspiring author, was awarded a gold medal in the historical fiction category by the Military Writers Society of America at their 2019 conference. The novel was already named one of three finalists in the military fiction category at the 2019 American Fiction Awards and won the military fiction category in America's 2019 Independent Press Awards earlier this year. Richard has been a volunteer crew member at Anstruther RNLI for the past two years. While juggling life as a director of a small research company, volunteer crew member and author, Richard has completed a sequel to his debut novel and has his next writing venture lined up. This time a fictional murder mystery novel based around a lifeboat crew, entitled 'The Brotherhood of the Sea.' Coxswain at Anstruther RNLI, Michael Bruce has commended Richard on his success with his novel. He said: 'All lifeboat crews are dedicated to saving lives at sea and all come from a wide range of occupations, but an award-winning author is a little unusual so we are proud to have him as part of our team here in Anstruther.'

The novel is available to buy on Amazon.

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Charity Funded Training

30/10/2019

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Nicole Fleming, Louise Whiteman and Emily Hague, from Anstruther, recently travelled to the RNLI College in Poole, Dorset, to complete the charity’s Crew Emergency Procedures course Sponsored by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation.

The course provides training in a variety of crucial subjects such as how to deal with fires aboard lifeboats, how to ‘abandon ship’ in the event of an emergency (with a 4 m jump into water), team survival swimming, coping in a life-raft in simulated darkness, how to right a capsized inshore lifeboat, and the importance of life-jackets. It also includes sessions on the correct use of flares, fire extinguishers and throw bags.

Trainees at the RNLI College

The Lloyds Foundation has committed to funding the RNLI’s Crew Emergency Procedures course for a second 5-year period until December 2020. Their total support for RNLI crew training to just over £2.46M since 2008. More than 3,000 RNLI volunteer crew members have now received the training thanks to Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s funding.

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