Coming from as far afield as Ireland and Humberside, 116 entries made the third Great Tweed Raft Race a huge crowd puller with 15,000 people lining the river bank. There were two categories: fancy dress rafts and speedsters, all of which had... - View image in PDF
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LIFEBOAT CLASSIFIED ALMOST AFLOAT...
or close waterfront, Fowey Harbour, South Cornwall. Comfortable holiday cottages, Polruan, sleep 2/8. Superb views, exceptionally well-equipped, mooring facilities. £50/S3OO...
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Persons rescued from shipwreck Kilmore life-boat landed a sick man from the Coningbeg lightvessel.
Fishing coble Premier, of Scarborough. Scarborough life-boat escorted coble.
Fishing boat Isa Simpson, of...
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The most amazing life-boat story of them all? The cottagers just down the road from where the Louisa was nudging her slow way, inch by inch along Mrs Washford's wall, had come out into the road to see what was going on. A hundred yards...
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South West Division Trapped under sea wall AT 1852 on Tuesday September 11, 1984, Lyme Regis honorary secretary was informed by Portland Coastguard that some people had been cut off by the tide at Black Beach groynes, some six cables to the...
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LIFE-BOAT OARS.
As a life-boat has, in the majority of eases, to be propelled by oars, and as, in order to rescue a shipwrecked crew, she has generally to be rowed to windward against a heavy sea and strong wind, it...
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FROM time immemorial it has been the custom of the Life-boat Service not to maintain fixed crews for Life-boats, but to draw volunteers as required from the seafaring population of the coast towns and villages where Life-boats are...
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Rescued Sailors Being Landed From The New Brighton Life-Boat In June 1966 After Two Dinghies Had Overturned In Rock Channel Off Wallasey See Page 226. - View image in PDF
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SPITHEAD, TUESDAY, JUNE 28: When her Majesty The Queen, aboard HMY Britannia, reviewed the Fleet as part of the celebrations marking her Silver Jubilee, three lifeboats of the Royal National Life-boat Institution were proud to take their...
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100 years ago The summer 1906 issue of the Journal featured an old sea dogliterally - in a report on the Clacton lifeboat, which went to the aid of a wrecked schooner Renner. The schooner's captain had been reluctant to leave his beloved...
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