With huge numbers of visitors expected in the south west for the solar eclipse on 11 August the RNLI and the other emergency services had their contingency plans in place… Mike Floyd watched events unfold at the Coastguard MRCC at Falmouth...
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As an experiment, Redditch ladies' guild officers and committee recently took part in a knit-in. Having successfully raised £110, they plan to include all guild members next time.
Photograph by courtesy of Redditch... - View image in PDF
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The original American-built Waveney, 44-001, during trials in December 1964.. - View image in PDF
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The No. 1 Life-boat Sarah Jane Turner was launched at 7.40 P.M. on the 22nd March, in answer to distress signals from a vessel to the north of the entrance to the harbour. The Life-boat reached the vessel at 8.10 P.M., and found that she was...
The 1993-built Tobermory boathouse. - View image in PDF
currently plagued with problems from a nearby sewer outlet.. - View image in PDF
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Ever wanted to walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs?
Foraging for fossils at the coast may be the closest you’ll get
Paddy Howe’s fascination with fossils started at a young age. ‘When I was a kid, I was...
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The Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, life-boat James & Mariska Joicey—she is a 48-foot 6-inch Solent type with a steel hull—undergoing capsizing tests before going to her station. The pictures show her upside down and, seconds later, back on an... - View image in PDF
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Top right: The original 'Old Tolbooth'at Lerwick, which is to be restored to provide new lifeboat crew facilities. - View image in PDF
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Rescue cruisers from Scandinavia: Sigurd Golje of Sweden (left) and R. S. - View image in PDF
Platou of Norway. Both are designed to accompany their fishing fleets to sea.. - View image in PDF
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