The Sheringham Lifeboats 1838-2000 By Mick Bensley Price: £35 Published by Bengunn ISBN 0953399818 SHERINGHAM LIFEBOATS U38-JOOO Internationally acclaimed marine artist Mick Bensley brings alive the most notable and daring rescues of...
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SMOKE SIGNALS SAVE YACHT Salcombe, South Devon. At 6.5 p.m.
on Saturday the 17th of August, 1963, the Prawle Point coastguard reported to the honorary secretary that smoke signals had been seen south of Bolt Head. At 6.10...
30 years, 250 rescues later Tom Robertson, the honorary secretary of the Queensferry lifeboat station, received a presentation of binoculars and a certificate at the annual general meeting of the RNLI in Scotland, for 30 years'...
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Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.41 on the morning of the 6th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the yacht Paulina needed help five miles south of Portland Bill.
The life-boat Lloyd's, on...
A severe gale having suddenly sprung up on the morning of the 31st October, all the fishing-cobles at once hastened back to port, but at 8.20 the Scarborough Coast- guard reported by telephone that a motor fishing-boat belonging to Scar-...
Mr. Augustine Courtauld, the famous explorer, who had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1951, died on the 3rd of March, 1959, at the age of 54. He served on the finance, boat and construction and operations...
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Zodiac, the best inflatable in the world.
Zodiac is Number One. Built by the oldest and best known inflatable manufacturers in the world, Zodiac inflatables confirm their pedigree, as soon as the going gets...
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Zodiac, the best inflatable in the world.
Zodiac is Number One. Built by the oldest and best known inflatable manufacturers in the world, Zodiac inflatables confirm their pedigree, as soon as the going gets...
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Lottery Draw The winning tickets for the 63rd national lottery were drawn at RNLI headquarters on Sunday 31 October 1993 by Peter Jones, chairman of the Civil Service Motoring Association and Colin Frizzell, chairman of Frizzell Financial...
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AUGUST, SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 1991 Aberdeen, Grampian D class: October 27 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 27: August 8,11 (twice), 12, 21, 25, 31, September 3 and October 6 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: August 16 (twice), 23 (three times),...
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