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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THE National Safety Week Council, on which the Institution is represented, is arranging to hold its second Safety Week from llth May to 16th May next.
The object of the Week is to arouse the public to the need of additional...
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Frank Smith, coxswain/ mechanic of Salcombe lifeboat since 1988. He first joined the crew in 1970 and was emergency mechanic from 1973 to 1981 when he was appointed mechanic.
From 1984 to 1988 he served as second coxswain /... - View image in PDF
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28 January: Littlehampton Crew Member Jon Maidment is pictured with ‘Sammy’ the swan. The crew found Sammy bleeding and in distress with fishing line lodged in his throat, picked him up (but not without some...
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ON 14th December last, the Queen unveiled the memorial, which has been erected on Tower Hill, to the 12,649 men of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets who gave their lives in the Great War and who have no grave but the...
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Penlee, Cornwall.—On the afternoon of the 13th of October, 1955, the Port Medical Officer reported that a man in the S.S. Manolito, of Costa Rica, had been injured. At 4.15 the life-boat W. and S. was launched and went to Newlyn for a doctor...
the harbour entrance when she received a message from Barragutt saying that her steering gear had broken down and she was wallowing in the navigation channel between perches 6 and 7. When crossing the first bar the wire connecting the rudder...
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Whitby, Yorkshire. — At 3.45 in the afternoon on the 2nd of April, 1950, fishermen reported that the fishing coble Jean and Valerie was making very heavy weather about four miles to the south. Accordingly at 4.10 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...
JAN. 9TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
Four seine net fishing boats- Streamlet, Lea Rig, Fisherboy, and Crestwere overtaken by a sudden N.N.W. gale, with a heavy sea, when fishing about eighteen miles west of Thurso. The motor...
(Above) Leeds appeal committee organised a charity greyhound meeting at Elland Road Stadium on May 6. Various firms in the city sponsored the eight races, to £100 each, and a very successful and enjoyable occasion yielded about... - View image in PDF
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