Sunset and evening star, And one clear call {or me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell When I embark;...
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North-East of England, South-East of England, and North-West of England.
TEN years ago the first conference of honorary workers was held in the North of England and although the practice of holding them regularly was not...
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WHEN RICHARD EVANS, the former Moelfre coxswain, concluded his reply to the toast of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution at a dinner given by the Corporation of London in Guildhall on April 26 to mark 'The Year of the Lifeboat',...
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Banking on their support Among the thousands competing in the New York marathon last November was a young lady wearing a Lizard lifeboat Tshirt.
The young lady in question was Elizabeth Foster, born and bred in Mullion, but...
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Llandudno, with its hillclimbing trams and snowless ski slope, is something of a wonderland. So it may come as no surprise that the lifeboat station is in a rather unusual place and needs a tractor and Land Rover to tow the lifeboats half a...
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The female shipwright
by Mary Lacy Review by Joanna Bellis
This is a tale of that old cliché, running away to sea. The difference here is that the escapee is an...
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St Abbs crew trusted each other with their lives in an outstandingly gallant rescue
‘This was something you can’t train for and something we’d never seen before. The decisions we made had to be...
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Maritime England A YEAR-LONG celebration of the sea is planned for Maritime England 1982 by the English Tourist Board. There may be as many as 2,000 special events put on in different parts of the country for the pleasure of visitors from...
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Mr John Skellorn, of the Gravesend Sailing Club, gives a tip about raising money by paperboat racing.
He writes: 'As far as we know, only Belfleet yacht club and ourselves have organised paperboat racing. It started...
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