AUGUST 3RD. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. An aeroplane had crashed, but her crew of two were rescued by a naval sloop. - Rewards, £3 16s..
OUR Life-boat Saturday friends have not been idle since we issued our last notice of the Fund. Fresh committees have been formed and active measures taken in all directions to secure success and development in the near future, although the...
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The caring approach to a sensitive subject THERE COMES A TIME IN LIFE when it's natural to consider your own funeral....
and to think alx ut loved ones and what you'd like to leave them.
Not the...
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TWO BOATS MISSING Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 4.40 a.m. on 3ist August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two boats, a ship's life-boat in tow of a boat powered by a small outboard motor, were missing on a voyage...
Girvan, Ayrshire. About one o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st of Novem- ber, 1951, when a gale was blowing, a message was heard on a fishing boat'swireless set in the harbour at Girvan that several fishing boats had left Whiting...
The Joseph Rothwell Sykes and Hilda M on the Day of Her Naming Ceremony. - View image in PDF
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THE Marconi system of wireless tele- graphy aMr. MARCONI is still engaged in further developing this part of his invention, and if he is able to overcome the liability of messages to get into wrong hands or to be otherwise interfered with,...
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Holy Island and North Sunderland, Northumberland.
—Early on the morning of the 28th February the coastguard reported to the Holy Island life-boat station that a vessel was in distress in Goswick Bay. A north-easterly...
ON 27th May, H.R.H. the Prince George, K.G., named the new Motor Life-boat stationed at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. This is the seventh Motor Life-boat to be named by the Prince.
The Aldeburgh boat is the first of a new type...
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IT was announced in the last issue of The Lifeboat that the Duchess of Sutherland, President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, had issued an invitation to each Guild to nominate two of its members, the President or Chairman and the...
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