THE winter of 1859-60 will command a mournful distinction in meteorological annals. Other winters may be found, perhaps, of equal severity and duration ; nor would it be difficult, we dare say, to produce examples of springs as backward as...
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photographs by courtesy of Peter Hadfield Thousands of Tablers came to Newhaven to be present at the naming of the 44' Waveney lifeboat Louis Marchesi of Round Table. They brought their families with them and the local Table, acting as... - View image in PDF
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At 5.45 A.M. on the 4th September the Coast- guard received a telephonic message from the Gunfleet Light-house, stating that a schooner was on the sands.
Without delay the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 proceeded under...
THE DUKE OF ATHOLL, chairman of the RNLI, praised the courage of the Penlee lifeboat crew lost last December and of their families at the annual general meeting of the governors of the RNLI held in London on Tuesday morning May 11. The Duke...
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IT is NOW possible to become a member of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. Up to now anyone interested could become a member of a branch or guild of the R.N.L.I., a governor of the Institution, an honorary vice-president, or a member...
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Picking up hospital cases is one of the many duties undertaken by life-boats. Here a seaman from the Esso tanker s.s. Canterbury, who was suffering from acute appendicitis, is being lowered to the Valentia life-boat from Kerry,... - View image in PDF
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HARTLEPOOL.—On the 4th January, at about 6 A.M., the s.s. Balmoral, of London, ran ashore on the North Sands, off Hartle- pool, at half-ebb tide. At low water she was high and dry; but when the tide rose the wind and sea began to make. At...
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DESPITE their name, there's nothing good about the Goodwin Sands, which comprises three hook-shaped banks off England's south east coast. For centuries these sandbars have been known to seamen as 'The Ship Swallowers', and it...
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Mrs Marie Winstone in her garden with the Duke of Atholl after she had presented to him a cheque for £300,000 to fund a 52ft Arun to be stationed at Fishguard.
With them are (I.) Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of... - View image in PDF
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Football clubs by foot John Pope, committee member of the Rushden branch, completed a sponsored walk in August, raising £411 for lifeboat coffers.
He walked 26 miles from Peterborough United football club to Rushden... - View image in PDF
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