The Services contributed all the excitment and satisfaction of their precision d' 'ays . . . the Royal Artillery motor cycle team (above) at South London gala and (below) Sen Cadet field gun crews . . .. - View image in PDF
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WEATHER-BOUND IN TORBAY Torbay, Devon.—During the morning of the 7th of January, 1948, officers of two London steamers, Fulham III and Fulham VI, weather-bound in Torbay while on passage in ballast to Barrv, had come ashore to buy provisions...
The brig Osborne, of Hartlepool, bound from London to Granton, in ballast, went ashore at Hadstone Scarr during a strong southerly wind, and in a heavy sea, on the 20th November. As soon as the vessel was observed to be in danger the...
OCTOBER 26TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE.
At 5.46 in the evening the coastguard reported that a small boat appeared to be disabled two miles north of Banff. A moderate south-easterly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The...
Mr T L Cloudsdale Fireman of the Trawler Tenby Castle Silver Medallist. - View image in PDF
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HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother meets members of Dover lifeboat crew (below). - View image in PDF
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Right: Before (right) and after pictures of the Courtmacsherry Harbour boathouse. - View image in PDF
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On the 28th September last the Norwegian Galliot Ship Provence ran on shore on the south side of Berwick-har- bour; the wind blowing strong from the E.N.E., and a heavy sea running at the time.
The Berwick life-boat,...
The chairman of Rickmansworth and Croxley Green branch writes about her flag day: "We had beautiful weather. The sellers were all very keen. The result, £132, is more than last year. My wheelbarrow came in yery useful in delivering...
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LAST September five boys made a sand model on the Southwold beach of the Queen Elizabeth, collected seven shillings from those who stopped to look at it and gave them to the Southwold branch of the Institution..
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