AFTER the general election in February, the ballot box from the island of Colonsay, off the west coast of Scotland, was brought to the mainland by the Islay life-boat. The cost was paid by the returning officer..
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Cullercoats, and Tynemoutb, North- umberland.—On the same morning, February 26th, 1947, the Greek steamer Zephyros, of Argostoli, a vessel of 4,000 tons, bound, in ballast, from Rouen to the Tyne, was driven ashore during a blizzard at...
MAY 17TH . - FRASERBURGH, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 1.18 A.M. the naval authorities at Rosyth asked, through the Fraserburgh coastguard, that the Fraserburgh life-boat should he got ready to launch. A few minutes later the station was...
POLICE Constable Robert Rutherford, who is a regular member of the Tynemouth life-boat crew, has been awarded the Royal Humane Society's testimonial on parchment for his part in the rescue of a 73-year-old man in January,...
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FATAL FALL At 3.9 p.m. on 23rd May, 1964, the Great Yarmouth police informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen into the river at the yacht station. The tide was almost at low water. There was a moderate north-easterly breeze with...
AFFINITY WITH The Royal Bank of Scotland pic DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? IF you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to Fund the RINLI with every transaction you make.
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WHAT is more precious than a human life, But what more frail ? What stronger in its might.
Or lovelier in its strength, than the fair sight Of noble man contending with the strife Of some more powerful foe ? Such is our...
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The launching ceremony and trial run of a four-foot scale model of the Howth life-boat took place recently at Baldoyle. The builder, twenty years old Derick Riley of "Alverno", Strand Road, Baldoyle, Dublin, is a science student at...
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Trapped at cliff foot THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Borth ILB station was in the boathouse when, at 2025 on Friday August 18, 1978, he was told that two people were trapped by the tide half a mile south west of the station. The informant had...
MARCH 25TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.15 at night the Deal coastguard telephoned that a vessel was aground on the mainland near the South Foreland. A moderate southeasterly breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth, but there was thick fog. The...