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Journey's end: A team of eight runners, with a back-up team of four, all from 414 Tank Transporter Unit of the Royal Corps of Transport stationed near Salisbury, completed a marathon run along the Welsh coast from Cardiff to Flint in... - View image in PDF
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Historic moment: the Lizard-Cadgwith life-boat making contact with Sir Francis Chichester's yacht Gypsy Moth IV as she neared the English coast on 28th May, 1967, after her voyage round the world.. - View image in PDF
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Staithes, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 6th May the local fishing cobles Star of Hope and Flora put to sea to haul crab and lobster pots.
Fog had been very dense for about sixteen hours, but had cleared. Some time...
The Plymouth life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse leaving Millbay Docks to go to the assistance of the crabber, Sunlit Waters, broken down off Penlee on 16th February, 1967. A force seven wind was blowing at the time.. - View image in PDF
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On the 26th November the Life-boat Reigate put off from this station and saved 8 persons which vessel had been driven into the ...
OVERHEARD in the street on Cromer Life-boat Day : " Have you got plenty of coppers ? Because to every along." we shall have to give flag-seller who comes.
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GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.
AT about 12.5 a.m., on the 30th September, 1899, the Coastguard on duty reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat that a vessel was showing signals of distress off Great Yarmouth.
At...
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— The schooner Gipsy King, of Glasgow, was totally wrecked during a heavy gale of wind on the Dulas Rocks, on the Anglesey coast, on the 17th October. At daybreak, during fearful weather, one of the crew was seen floating on a piece of...
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—On the morning of the 30th January the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was making for the harbour, and that as there was a heavy swell running at the harbour mouth, and the boat was a stranger, it would be...