(Below, right), Grace Darling, led by Philip and Annette Rydin, pulls Grace Darling on stage during Kiddlington branch's second old tyme music hall, held at Exeter Hall in May. On board is Miss Oxford 1979, Debbie Risk. The event made... - View image in PDF
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It proves it! It you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the si/e, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...
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OCTOBER 26TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 7.45 in the evening the naval control asked the life-boat coxswain to assemble his crew, as a vessel, somewhere in the east anchorage, was sending out a wireless SOS, and a tug and a fire-float...
Girvan, Ayrshire. About six o'clock on the evening of the 15th August, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message from the man in charge of the lighthouse supply boat at Ailsa Craig that a quarryman was suffering from a badly...
Dover, Kent.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th of November, 1952, the Sandgate coastguard tele- phoned that an American jet aircraft had crashed off Kingsdown, about one and a half miles east-north-east of Dover, and that the...
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 12.45 P-m- on J4tn July, 1966, news was received, that the Dutch trawler Noorderkroon, of Scheveningen, had a mine on board. H.M.S. Belton had put ratings aboard to secure the mine. The honorary secretary...
SECOND LAUNCH TO FISHING BOAT IN SAME YEAR Plymouth, Devon. At 10.15 on the night of the 17th June, 1962, the coastguard at Rame Head told the honorary secretary a boat was under observation about a quarter of a mile south-west of the...
To H. W. JEFFERSON, Mechanic of the Hartlepool Motor Life-boat, in recognition of his intrepid conduct when the Life-boat caught fire, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum and a monetary grant.
To REGINALD...
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SEPTEMBER 13TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN, AND ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
The American liberty vessel No.
572 had stranded, but a fishing boat stood by her and she refloated. - Rewards : Dunbar, £4 7s. 6d...
"RADIO LONDON" CAPTAIN ILL At 9.55 a.m. on 20th August, 1965,11 was learnt that a message had been received from the Harwich agents of the M.V.
Galaxy, the transmitting station known as Radio London, saying the...