Over the water from Milford Haven, where the tall chimneys of the oil refineries belch out their smoke, lies the small village of Angle, a village of about 200 inhabitants, a village which the Industrial Revolution seems almost to have...
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PORT ISAAC and PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
—Oa the morning of the 2ad January a barque, which proved to be the Antoinette, of St. John, New Brunswick, bound from Newport for Santos with coals, was observed about eight miles distant...
IT will doubtless be in the memory of many of our readers that the Report read at the last Annual Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION con- tained the important information that Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., the Chair- man of...
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The North Kessock lifeboat crew flanking (from left to right) His Grace the Duke of Atholl, station honorary secretary Capt J.B. Fairgrieve, Mrs Joyce Cowie, Ian Cowie and Campbell Ross, branch chairman.. - View image in PDF
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RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 6th February, at about 9 P.M., while a whole gale was blowing from S.E. with a blinding snowstorm, a trawler entered the harbour and reported that she had passed a sunken schooner, the water being several feet...
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The Committee of Management also deeply regret the loss of another col- league, General Sir Charles Monro, Bt., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.S.I., who became a member of the Committee of Manage- ment in 1921. Two years later he was appointed...
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Mrs Leetnan was one of many helpers who between them collected £3,500 during Belfast lifeboat day on April 25, a remarkable increase of £1,000 on last year. It was Mrs Leematfs 85th birthday.. - View image in PDF
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The Bridlington, Yorkshire, 37- foot life-boat William Henry and Mary King, which was built in 1967, nearly always makes a good subject when she leaves or returns to harbour. These pictures, taken on 4th December, 1972, show her in rough... - View image in PDF
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ALDERMAN LADY (EMILIE WARD) REED, who died in February, 1947, was for nearly forty years actively associated with the Exeter branch, and she found time, in the midst of many other public duties, to give it always her personal and...
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