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EAST AND WEST COWES ISLE OF WIGHT Wood and Steel Boat Building Completion of Glass Fibre Hulls Refitting and Storage Contractors to: R.N.L.I., Trinity House, Ministry of Defence and Private...
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Facts and Figures In 1986 the RNLI's lifeboats launched 3,641 times (an average of over nine times each day) and saved 1,398 lives (an average of over three people rescued each day).
Over 44 per cent of all services...
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EEDCAB.—The Life-boat Brothers was launched for exercise at 2.15 P.M. on the 23rd June, 1892, in a moderate gale from the N. by E. and a rough sea, and, while under sail, the coble Wild Hose, of Eedcar, was seen, about two miles to leeward,...
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Due to extending the Berths available we are pleased to announce this special offer ANNUAL BERTHING ONLY £98 per metre (inc. VAT) Fixed for 2 years. 20OO to 20O2 season The facilities available at Hartlepool Marina continue to grow: •...
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CYPRUS WINTERSUN ta £299 FOR 2 WEEKS ON 3-STAR HALF BOARD WITH A 3RD WEEK FREE ON BED & BREAKFAST plus REGULAR ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME - NO SUPPLEMENTS FOR SINGLE ROOMS - GREAT GUEST FACILITIES - SCHEDULED RETURN FLIGHTS FROM...
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BOLD DIVE Mr. Albert Court, the full-time mechanic of the Wells, Norfolk, life-boat, was peacefully ferrying visitors in his own boat across the harbour channel on 4th July, 1971, from the Cockle Strand. There was an cast north easterly wind...
Ramsgate, Walmer, and Dover, Kent.
—At 10.8 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1951, the Ramsgate coastguard telephoned to the Rams- gate life-boat station that an aeroplane, an American Thunderjet fighter, had...
THE WORK of our Northern Irish lifeboat crews continues in the same admirable way as that of their fellow seamen at all other RNLI stations. As to financial branches, last year RNLI committees and their helpers raised £30,000, a record...
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Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 2.54 on the afternoon of the 14th of September.
1957, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was flying a distress signal about a mile and a half south-east of Southwold harbour. The life-boat...
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1929.
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42 0 0 ™" — ™""" «™—-« ~ Construction and Repair of Life-boats,...
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