AUGUST 17TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 7.20 in the morning the coastguard reported a sailing yacht flying distress signals three miles south-south-east of Bill Tower. A strong north-easterly breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. The motor...
WE have received the Annual Report 01 the operations of the United States Life- Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1890, issued from the Govern- ment Printing Office at Washington in 1892, the Service being a branch of the...
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French trawlermen saved IN THE WAKE OF the hurricane which swept across South East England in the early hours of October 16, 1987, many of the boats berthed at Newhaven Harbour—ripped from their moorings in the 90-knot winds—had been blown...
Mrs Barbara Favell, president of the Sennen lifeboat guild since 1976..
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Mrs Rhoda Brash, winner of the 4th prize in the summer 2005 Lifeboat Lottery. - View image in PDF
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'But surely you realised it was November the Fifth?'.
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THE death at Lytham of Thomas Clarkson, the late Coxswain of the Lytham Life-boat, at the ripe age of eighty-three, recalls one of the most terrible Life-boat disasters which has ever befallen the Institution. On December 6th, 1886, the...
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The surfing tribe – a history of surfing in Britain
by Roger Mansfield,
edited by Sam Bleakley
and Chris Power
Review by Liz Cook
This is no simple coffee-table beauty,...
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ealthspan vitamins 'Let food be your medicine and medicine your food* Hippocrates, 400BC Good nutrition is the foundation of good health The vital contribution of nutrition to better health is hardly a new concept. It's one of the...
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