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Sidelights on Stations and Places . . .

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

When the Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 55) docked at Broad Quay, Bristol, in preparation for Bristol Life-boat Day, television announcer Guy Thomas, on behalf of T.W.W.

Ltd., presented a television set to the...

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175 Years from Page 91

Date: Autumn 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 466

Some of the lifeboats have taken part in historic events. Plymouth's lifeboat Clemency was present on August 19, 1879, at the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Eddystone Lighthouse by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of...

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Rac

Date: Autumn 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 530

With RAC Motor Insurance you'll save more than just 22.5%.

What will you save with your motor insurance? The odd pound or two maybe, but how about a life? For every quote given to an RNLI member, RAC Insurance Services...

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Mercury Direct

Date: Summer 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 561

MALTA 4 weeks from £299 on half-board No single supplements; All rooms with colour TV; Private bathroom/shower; 1, 2 and 3 weeks also available Look what's included: Return flights from Gatwick or Heathrow, Stansted, Manchester,...

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Never give up

Date: Spring 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 587

During the afternoon of Thursday 24 July 2008, Teignmouth’s Atlantic 85 lifeboat The Two Annes launched in dreadful conditions to search for two swimmers, a 15-year-old boy and his father, missing from the beach. A full complement of four...

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Clifton, of Gloucester

Date: July 1859

Volume: 04

Issue: 33

Early in the morning of the 12th March, the schooner Clifton, of Glou- cester, ran ashore on the south side of the bar at the entrance to Bideford harbour, the wind blowing hard from the west at the time. At daylight the crew, 6 in number,...

Lalage

Date: September 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 389

Margate, Kent. At 9.21 on the evening of the 25th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain that red flares had been seen in the direction of Margate Sands five miles north-west of Margate. The coxswain had also seen these flares,...

Violet and Virgin,Training Ship Prince Louis, Ketch Owl

Date: December 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 398

Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 3.25 on on the afternoon of the 16th September, 1961, a local resident informed the honorary secretary that the small fish- ing vessel Violet was unable to make the harbour entrance. The wind at the time had...

Award for Licensee of Inn

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

Ox the evening of the 9th of August, 1957, two boys and a girl were bathing off the beach at Walberswick, some two hundred yards south of the south pier of the harbour at Southwold, Suffolk. A strong south-by-east breeze was blowing and...

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Phase II and Raven

Date: Summer 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 457

On service 11 hours ON MONDAY, MAY 31, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Walmer lifeboat station that a cabin cruiser had broken down in a position some three to four miles south east of the lifeboat station; she was drifting...