AFFINITY WITH The Royal Bank 7M 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 RNLI with every transaction you...
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"Extra cash has changed our lives Like so many other retired couples, Graham Southworth and his wife Marjorie of Blackpool have realised that they can afford a few luxuries in retirement - by making use of their biggest asset: their...
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Completed picture: the final jigsaw piece was fitted to the Edinburgh lifeboat appeal on Wednesday August 14, 1985, when Tennent Caledonian Breweries handed over a cheque for £5,000, the final amount needed to achieve the appeal's... - View image in PDF
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Blackpool ladies lifeboat guild held a sponsored walk across Morecambe Bay on 14 June to raise funds for the Institution. The walk was led by the Queen's Official Guide, Cedric Robinson and was highly successful with over 200 people... - View image in PDF
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Fearless RNLI supporters jumped into the record books in June when they smashed the record for the most tandem skydives in one day.
On Saturday 14 June, 323 fundraisers around the UK jumped from a height of 3,048m, with 25...
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At 5 P.M. on the 12th March, when blowing a strong gale from the N., the schooner Resolute, of Peterhead, and brig A. E. M., of Nantes, went ashore on the north-west part of the Goodwin Sands.
The steam-tug Vulcan and Life...
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1957, a message was received that there was an injured man on board the Liberian tanker Cnosa about twenty miles south-east of Bishop's Rock Lighthouse. At three o'clock...
Coxswain Samuel Cunningham, who died at his home at the age of 54 on 3rd June, 1964, had a dual role which was unique in Ulster. He was former coxswain of the Portrush life-boat and was also town clerk of Portrush.
He was...
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Margate, Kent. At 5.34 on the after- noon of 6th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy was being carried out to sea east of Longnose buoy. A moderate south-west wind was blowing with a slight...
Swanage, Dorset - At 9.57 p.m. on 23rd August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Yewforest had reported that she was standing by the yacht Ruan which was in difficulties 14 miles south west of Anvil point...