15-year-old sarah Bennett, a chetham’s pupil and RnLI fundraiser Photo: Jonathan Keenan. - View image in PDF
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THE life-boat Christmas card and calendar, with a reproduction in colour of the service of the Ballycotton motor life-boat to the Daunt Rock lightship, of which particulars were given in the last issue of The Life-boat, can still be obtained...
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From left to right: Second Coxswain Ernest Guy (St. Mary's), Motor Mechanic William Burrow (St. Mary's), Coxswain Dermot Walsh (Valentia), Coxswain Stephen Whittle (Dunmore East), Crew Member David Brunton (Dunbar), Coxswain Alfred... - View image in PDF
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St Bees: (1. to r.) Leon Goldwater, honorary secretary, Stanley Kelly, DLA, Jim Baty, station administrative officer, Crew Members Ian McDowell, Russell Cranston, Jack Soittham, Michael Goldwater and Bill Forbes, and Malcolm Reid, DLA. In... - View image in PDF
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The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, was the splendid setting for a cheese and wine evening, held last November. The 400 guests sampled the delights of Dutch cheese, kindly provided by the Dutch Dairy Bureau; Martell donated a gross of... - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 28TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 1.20 in the afternoon information was received that two yachts were in danger of being driven on to the sea wall at Canvey Island. A fresh south-south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
To JOHN B. MCLEAN, on his retirement, after serving for 16J years as coxswain of the Peterhead life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, gratuity and a retirement allow- ance.
To BENJAMIN WILLIAMS, on his...
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On the 15th December, during a heavy S.S.E. gale, two French vessels, mistaking this harbour for that of Portsmouth, struck on the sands at East [ Looe and West Looe respectively. The ' Manley Wood life-boat was soon launched...
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT TORBAY DEC. 16TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON. In the early afternoon the schooner Henrietta, of Truro, with a crew of seven men, was carried by the strong spring tides and a gale from the east-north-east to the...
Rescue of a French Crew at Barry Dock.
ON the morning of 17th September the French schooner Goeland, of Paimpol, was on her way from Brest to Swansea with a cargo of onions. A strong gale from the W.N.W. was blowing, with...
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