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Recycling raises £185,000
You can do your bit for the planet while raising funds for the RNLI. Recycle your old mobile phones, printer cartridges and gadgets (such as satnavs and digital cameras) with The Recycling Factory, and the company will make a donation to the...
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A Yacht (3)
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 3.10 p.m. on gth August, 1966, a small yacht was reported to have capsized between the lookout and Walton pier. The lifeboat Edian Courtauld left her moorings at3.24 in a moderate to fresh south westerly wind...
Inset: George Phillips
Inset: George Phillips accepts the wet weather clothing from Captain Walter Scull Photo: D RAF St Mawgan. - View image in PDF
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The Best Essay
By RITA DAPHNE HARDING (aged 11), The Colville Junior Girls' School, Lonsdale Road, Netting Hill, London, W.ll.
I STOOD watching a strong weatherbeaten tisherman haul baskets of crabs over the side of his boat, on to...
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The Humber Lightvessel
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 7.45 P.M.
on the 17th December, 1937, the lifeboat watchman reported two rockets in a south-easterly direction. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, and squalls of rain and sleet.<...
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Other Classifications are at 20p per...
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The S.S. Empire Breeze (1)
MARCH 13TH - 15TH. - CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the 5th February the S.S. Empire Breeze had stranded on the Bondicar Rocks, and the Amble lifeboat had rescued her crew. On the 13th March the Empire Breeze was refloated and taken in tow...
Emily
On the 29th March the Life-boat Mark Lane was again called out, a small lugger, the Emily, of Gorleston, with two men on board, being observed with her mast and sail over the side. It was evident that she was not under control, herrudder, it...
Sprite
APRIL 22ND. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. The coastguard kept a yacht under observation for some hours. The sea was very heavy, a N.W. gale was blowing, and it was decided to send out help. At 2.25 P.M.
the motor life-boat...
A Canoe
FOUND EMPTY CANOE At 2.4 a.m. on 2oth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a i y-year-old boy was missing in the Firth of Forth, and that he was last seen in his canoe the previous morning.
The...