LITTLE DID I THINK some 20 years ago when I started in general practice that I should be in active service for more than a decade as a lifeboat doctor or HMA (honorary medical adviser), as we are called. Years later I asked the now retired...
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NEWSPOINT Few can complain at the amount of exposure the Institution has received on television recently.
Hardly had the Salcombe- Dased documentary left our TV screens than BBC's 'Blue Peter' took up the...
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'Sometimes, with other charities, you don't know where your money is going. With the RNLI, 1 know exactly what is happening and where/ Phyl Cleare, lifeboat donorTrust and confidence are essential when companies are persuading the...
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Launches 41 Lives rescued 56
APRIL 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A message was received from the son of the life-boat coxswain, Dumble, that his father and his father’s partner were out in their crab-boat...
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Porthcawl - Wales and West Mercia Division In its literal translation from Welsh, 'port - cawl' means 'port of boiling broth' as the seaside resort faces brutal prevailing Westerly winds and currents - and the highest rise... - View image in PDF
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DURING December, 1951, life-boats went out on service 35 times and rescued 15 lives.
ENGINE BROKEN DOWN Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 3.7 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a woman had...
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Chief Inspector of Life-boats THE new 42-feet by 14-feet Watson cabin life-boat, the first of which has now gone to her station at Coverack, Cornwall, is the successor of the 41-feet by 11-feet 8-inches Watson type boat, which first came...
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Lives saved.
Ada Gane, ketch, of Harwich— stood by vessel.
Albion, schooner, of Runcorn— assisted to save vessel and...... 4 Alnvrick, schooner, of Beaumaris —assisted to save vessel.
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MARCH Launches 43 Lives rescued 45 MARCH 2ND. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.
The Admiralty tug Seaman put out from Montrose with a battle target in tow and the life-boat coxswain on board as pilot. A strong northerly wind was blowing,...
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PALLING.—On the 6th April, at about 7 A.M., the s. s. Spartan, of Botterdam, bound from Hamburg to London, with a cargo of sugar, grounded on the Has- borough Sands during a dense fog. On the following morning, the fog having cleared, the...
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