SIDMOUTH.—On the morning of the 23rd May H.M.S. Lively, with the DUKE and DUCHESS of EDINBURGH and suite on board, arrived off Sidmouth, and came into the bay, in order that his Royal Highness might land and inspect the Coastguard Station....
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.— On the evening of the 4th April, 1881, informa- tion was brought from the Coastguard Station that the Bell Buoy, a vessel which is placed about two miles off the shore to warn vessels off the Stullmartin Reef, had...
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WHEN the Life-boat Service was founded, at a meeting in the City of London, in 1824, King George IV became its Patron, and five of the royal dukes its vice-patrons—York, Clarence, Sussex, Cambridge and Gloucester.
So the...
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