lakes a bit of will power to give up vour daily bag of crisps at school during Lent but Robert Crumble, aged six, decided this would be his sacrifice for his school's Lenten collection.
The money not spent on crisps... - View image in PDF
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Bronze Medal Coxswain Albert Sutherland of Fraserburgh for the service to the fishing vessel Hope Crest on 16 February 1997 - see this issue of Tht Liteboit for a full report of the service. - View image in PDF
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Launches 41 Lives rescued 97 APRIL 1ST. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
About six o’clock in the morning the officerof the watch of H.M.S. Forte III telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Pendennis Castle Point. The tide was low,...
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The Life-boat Charles Dibdin was launched, on 22nd July, in response to distress signals from the Gull Light-vessel and found the cutter yacht Eileen, of Brightlingsea, stranded on the North Goodwin Sands.
At the time of...
Right - the relentless heal beats down on the brave volunteers and their D class lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
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BARMOUTH, NOETH WALES.—At noon on the 27th November The Jones Oibb Life-boat was launched, Captain LA PEIMAUDAYE, E.N., District Inspector of Lifeboats, who was at the station on a visit of inspection, going out in her, to the assistance of...
On the 22nd Dec. the Life- boat Centurion, in answer to signals of dis- tress from the Gull Lightship, launched, through a heavy surf, to the assistance of the brig Flossie, of Guernsey, ashore on the Goodwin Sands. The Centurion remained by...
On the 25th Sept., the schooner Elizabeth Davy, ofGoole, was observed in a dismasted state, running for the shore in tow of the Polperro, diving boat. She had a very narrow escape of striking the rocks east of Looe Island. The life-boat...
SHIPS have always been a favourite subject for stamps. Yet among this multipli- city of stamps concerned with the sea, comparatively little attention has been paid to that very necessary aspect of life at sea, namely, the life-boats which...
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Helmsman Donald Jones (right) has been awarded a bronze medal and Crew Member Paul Frost a medal service certificate for the rescue, in a force 7 gusting 9 wind, of two boys cut off by the tide. photograph by courtesy of Philip... - View image in PDF
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