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/"" /" t"» f fi f" o Notes of the Quarter Ill Lifeboat Services 113 Volume XLVIII LongServiceAwards 119 Number 481 Yes, I'd do it all again, by Rosemarie Ide 120 ,,. . Skegness Lifeboat Station, 1825 to...
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Mite
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the 5th of June, 1948, the engines of the sixty- three-ton motor yacht Mite, on passage from Malta to London, broke down some fifteen miles west of Portland Bill in a south-south-west gale with a very rough sea. The...
British Paints Limited
TREATED WITH THE RESPECT (AND THE PAINTS) SHE DESERVES! The old Shields lifeboat the Tyne, now preserved as shown here, is well protected with B.P.L. materials—paints which themselves hold an enviable reputation for service under the...
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The Improvisatore. Songs of Society. "Man the Life-Boat!"
During the storms of the past ye «r the NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION contributed to the saving of 1121 live: from various shipwrecks—Hatty Paper.
O ALL ye who sit in comfort By the brightly-blazing fire, Do you ever...
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News and Views
A Big Thank You from the Anniversary Project Manager So that's it. 1999 has come and gone and the 175th anniversary is now officially over. Only the Scots carried on with the celebrations right up to the official birthday of 4 March 2000...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
POOLE.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a life-boat station at the port of Poole on the coast of Dorsetshire.
As there was no life-boat establishment between Lyme Regis on that coast and the Isle of Wight, and...
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Sons of the Wear
BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. — On the 23rd September, at about 1 A.M., a southerly gale suddenly sprang up, increasing in violence until about 3 o'clock, when it became very severe. A large fleet of fishing-boats which had gone out during the...
The Fundraisers
Jazz on a different day Cheltenham branch has recently circulated some 1,000 copies of its busy fundraising diary-but unfortunately the date of the Jazz train event, originally scheduled for 27 July 1996, has had to be changed to 3 August...
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The American Steamer John P. Doe, of Baltimore
MARCH 25TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.15 at night the Deal coastguard telephoned that a vessel was aground on the mainland near the South Foreland. A moderate southeasterly breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth, but there was thick fog. The...
Pride of the Dee, Isabella and Maggie Brocklebank
HOLYHEAD.—During a gale of wind from the N.W. by W., and a very heavy sea on the 20th January, the No. 2 Lifeboat Joseph Whitworth was called out by signals of distress exhibited by two vessels lying in the outer anchorage which were...