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patron—ibis Most ©racious fl&ajestg tbe Chairman— COLONEL SIR FITZROY CLAYTON, K.C.V.O., V.P.

Deputy Chairman— SIR JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., C.H.G...

Stromness, Orkneys.—At 9.3 on the night of the 8th of January, 1949, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the engine of the outward bound Hull trawler Cramond Isle had broken down, that the trawler was leaking badly, and that, although...

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—Signals of distress were shown by the St. Nicholas Light-vessel at about 12.45 A.M. on the 17th February, during a moderate gale from the S.E., with a heavy sea on the bar. The Life-boat Mark Lane was manned, towed out of...

BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the 22d March the schooner Heinrkh Gerdes, of Rostock, on running for the harbour of Berwick, struck on the bar, and was driven ashore south of the entrance to the Tweed. It was blowing a heavy gale from east-north-east,...

On the morning of the 9th February the Cox- swain of the Life-boat Queensbury went off in his coble, intending to go to his crab-pots. When well outside the break- water he found the sea very heavy and increasing. Knowing that several...

Clovelly, Devon.—At 9.40 on the night of the 30th of August, 1948, the Croyde coastguard rang up to say that two men had been cut off by the tide and were on a ledge near Seal Rock, Baggy Point. He said he would guide the life-boat to the...

AGED 60? HOMEOWNER? I enjoy a more prosperous retirement Ex-Service man makes the most of his retirement years with an equity release scheme Flying for the first time into the airfield he had helped to build whilst serving in Burma during...

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