A SERVICE which will be recorded on the station board with the curt statement "Stood by vessel" was recently carried out in such exceptionally difficult conditions that it has led to the award of a silver medal to the Torbay...
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(Member of the crew of the Beaumaris life-boat) IT was seven o'clock in the morning and raining slightly as I walked through the deserted streets of Gote- borg down to the docks where I was to board the Swedish rescue-cruiser Wilh: R....
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PRESENTATION GIFTS THE WESTCOUNTRY "PURITAN" SERVING SPOON A spoon of limited manufacture, produced by Wigfull's for occasions of celebration and personal importance.
A very fine example of English...
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3rd July. An aeroplane of Cobham's Air Routes, Ltd., crashed off the Needles.
A steamer picked up the only passenger, but the pilot was killed. Sir Alan Cobham wrote expressing appreciation of the effort made by the...
PORTMADOC.—On the morning of the 9th of December, 1854, the wind blowing hard from N.N.W. at the time, two large threemasted vessels were observed from Portmadoc to be on shore on the St. Patrick's Causeway, a dangerous shoal of several...
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IN 1949 the Leeds branch of the Institution launched a special appeal for £10,000 to provide a life-boat to be named The City of Leeds. The appeal was under the patronage of the late Earl of Harewood, who contributed generously to it,...
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 120 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 54 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 15th, 1934 - ... 63,615 An East Coast Gale.
ON 13th December an...
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Hunter trials in the garden of Mrs Duncan, president of Troon ladies' guild. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Douglas Studio. - View image in PDF
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The Queen Mother leaving St Paul's Cathedral with the Lord Mayor of London. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Keystone Press. - View image in PDF
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