On the 14th De- cember, during a gale from the S.W., a vessel was seen in distress off Looe Island.
The life-boat Oxfordshire stationed there j was quickly launched through a heavy surf | to her assistance, and...
Top The 47ft Tyne class has served the RNLI we/I since her introduction in 1983, but the class will need replacing from 2003 when they reach 20 years old.. - View image in PDF
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Raymond Pope, Bexleyheath branch president from 1980 until his death. Raymond was also on the RNLI staff for 20 years, the last 10 as the City of London regional organiser..
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Poole, Dorset.—At 8.20 on the even- ing of the 7th of October, 1953, the police reported that a yacht was on the rocks at the Training Bank and had burnt flares. At 8.25 the life- boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched in a ground swell and...
SLOOP AGROUND Skegness, Lincolnshire, and Wells, Norfolk. At 10.40 p.m. on igth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the Skegness honorary secretary that the sloop Hod o' the Wind was overdue on passage from Boston Ham to Gibralter Point...
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 6th February, at about 9 P.M., while a whole gale was blowing from S.E. with a blinding snowstorm, a trawler entered the harbour and reported that she had passed a sunken schooner, the water being several feet...
ONE of the most original and successful efforts on behalf of the funds of the Institution was carried out at Bedford on 27th June. It was an historical pageant organised by the Bedford Rotary Club, and was followed by a military tattoo. The...
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Even as they're growing older, your children will still look to you for support.
Especially when the grandkids come along! So, as well as offering words of wisdom, it's good to know you can also lighten the...
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Yarmouth's Arun class lifeboat Jo and John Wade is pictured during a service to the Maltese-registered Ro-Ro vessel/4/A M'tff e/-/during the severe storms which swept the country on 28/29 October 1989. The photograph may not be of... - View image in PDF
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