It's too big to fit in a collecting box - Corus Shotton sports and social club manager Kath Tellett hands over a cheque to HNLt area organiser Richard Polden, joined by Connah's Quay committee members Nev Williams, Ray Cottrelt,... - View image in PDF
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Seven of the eight crew who were lost. Back row left to right: Daniel Kirkpatrick, Jimmy Johnston, Robert (Sodjer Bob) Johnston, Ray Kirkpatrick and James Swanson. Front row left to right: Robbie Johnston and John (Jack) Kirkpatrick. The... - View image in PDF
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Two fishermen faced the reality of the most dangerous profession as they drifted off Co Cork
Just before 9am on Wednesday 22 June, as many of the lifeboat and shore volunteers of Baltimore were...
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Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 9.35 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1947, the coastguard reported that four fishing boats were at sea, a strong south- south-east breeze was blowing, a heavy sea running, and the wind and sea increasing....
APRIL 1994 Joe Martin BEM, coxswain/mechanic of Hastings lifeboat from 1971 to 1987. He first joined the crew in 1950, was mechanic from 1959 to 1969 and a travelling mechanic from 1969 until his appointment as coxswain..
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THURSDAY, 13th October, 1898.
Sir EDWARD BIBKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
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Sounds of music float along; Seas flow in with summer song ; For the sands are gay, and children play Where storms rage fierce on wintry day.
" A penny in the elot—H peril from the sea !" A coin from me, a coin...
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Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 54 Number 535 Chairman: SIR MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CUE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: JON JONES Advertisement Manager: JOHN FARNHILL...
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Life-Boat Life-Boathouse and Slipway at Saint Jean-De-Luz (Basses-Pyrenees). - View image in PDF
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ALNMOUTH.—The John Atkinson Lifeboat rescued, on the 24th December, 3 of the crew of the brig Unition, of Guernsey, which vessel had stranded on the Boulmer Rocks. Of the remainder of the shipwrecked men, 1 was lost, and the others, 4 in...