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Matador
At 6.15 P.M. on the 19th March a telephone message was received from Kentish Knock Light- vessel reporting that a barque, appar- ently on the Kentish Knock Sands, was burning flares for assistance. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Civil...
Some Ways of Raising Money
Birmingham branch had a busy time last October. In one week an exhibition at the New Street Shopping Centre raised a magnificent £2,700. The branch's annual dinner and dance, held during the same week at the Botanical Gardens, and...
Category: Articles
Healthspan
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Royal Doulton
Royal Doulton is proud to announce atone JBolejm A limited edition fine china sculpture which captures the spirit and beauty of a defiant queen She was queen for only a thousand days, yet her spirit was to outlive the king who executed...
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Services of Life-Boats
HARTLEPOOL. SEAMEN'S LIFE-BOAT.—This boat, of the establishment of which, by the seamen of Hartlepool, we gave a description in our last number, has soon had opportunities for rendering essential service, and so of effecting the humane...
Category: Services
Yachts and Dinghies (1)
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
None (2)
First season success Glorious sunshine brought many to Croyde and Woolacombe beaches, North Devon, on 11 June 2006, but high surf and strong rip currents combined to make a busy day for RNLI lifeguards. They used their rescue watercraft to...
A Tale of Two Towns
Regarding the photograph on page 11 of the Spring 2002 issue of the Lifeboat, showing the crew of the Charles Biggs lifeboat, there are two errors in the caption. They are the crew of the Lytham lifeboat: the St Annes boat Laura Jane was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Benwick
SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.—In thick weather, a strong S.W. breeze and a rough sea on the 4th February, a large steamer—the s.s. Benwick, of Newcastle —stranded on the " Runnel Stone" and subsequently became a total wreck. It was soon...
Trapper
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 8 o'clock in the evening of the 26th of June, 1949, a Wexford man telephoned that his son had put out in the yacht Trapper at 11 o'clock that morning and had not returned, and that a message...