Before the University Boat Race took place on the Thames on 1st April, 1972, Commander P. Thornycroft, V.R.D., R.N.R., M.R.I.N.A., of T.T. Boat Designers Ltd, Bembridge, I.o.W., wrote: 'We have been asked by the B.B.C. if a boat can be...
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LIFE-BOAT Week at Bristol this year included a most successful and well organised Life-boat Day on Thursday, 16th June, and an assembly from 11 Branches in the Midlands District for a Conference which was held on Saturday, 18th June. In...
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Rhyl, Flintshire. At 1.4 p.m. on ist September, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two flares had been burned by the m.f.v. Stingray. There was a fresh north-westerly breeze with a rough sea. It was almost high water. The...
At Easier last ear Mrs Shirley Norris of Brixhain ladies' guild opened a 'staircase' stall in the limited space of an estate agents forecourt, by kind permission of Stan Churchill. The £1,000 taken helped to bring the guild... - View image in PDF
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APRIL 1ST. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
About six o’clock in the morning the officer of the watch of H.M.S. Forte III telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Pendennis Castle Point. The tide was low, with a strong southeast wind...
Mike Floyd continues his look at the training of today's lifeboatmen and joins a new Mersey class lifeboat on passage from Poole to her new station There was an air of anticipation, excitement even, when the engine note of our Mersey...
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THE British Public is much indebted to the BOARD OF TKADE for the carefully prepared tables and statistics which it provides year by year in connection with the shipping disasters which occur on or near the coasts of the United...
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A CALAMITY like that of the wreck of the steam-ship London is one of those grievous and tragic events with which, in these stormswept islands, the imagination of the public is only too familiar; yet which, out of the depths of misfortune and...
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On the 25th November, at about 3 P.M., the Coxswain of the Life-boat saw a smack ground on the Newcombe Sands, and in response to her signals the No. 1 Life-boat Kentwell was launched. After reaching the smack the Life-boat succeeded in ...
St David's ladies' guild held an aide tyme music hall at Warpool Court Hotel on February 1, attended by about 200 people, most of them in splendid period costume. A glittering evening of song, dance and mirth was under the... - View image in PDF
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