A stellar acting career and a passion for the sea unite in Celia Imrie’s latest role – and thoughts of lifeboats are never far away
As someone who regularly takes the ferry journey from...
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• The 1981 edition of Reed's Nautical Almanac (Thomas Reed Publications, £7.95) marks the golden jubilee of this popular publication. There cannot be many lifeboats which do not have a copy of Reed's on the chart table and the...
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THE Institution is again issuing a Life- boat Calendar. It feels that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service continually before the public from the first day of the year to the last, and it hopes that many...
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CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At 11 o'clock onthe morning of the 5th October the fishing smack Triton, of Yarmouth, stranded on the Barber Sand. The weather at the time was squally, and there was a heavy sea on the beach and sands. The -vessel was...
About noon on tbo Gth August, during a strong W.N.W. gale and rough sea, the Coastguard reported that the ketch Standard, of Fowey, was dragging her anchors and was in danger on a lee shore in Dublin Bay. The Life-boat Dimleary was promptly...
YACHT WITH BROKEN TILLER Fowey, Cornwall.—At 8.30 in the evening of the 20th of July, 1947, the Looe coastguard reported that a yacht was anchored in a very dangerous position between Looe Island and Hannafore Point and that she would break...
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IN The Lifeboat for December, 1931 it was announced that the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at Cobham, Surrey, Miss Margaret Power, had very kindly offered to make woollen hearth- rugs and slip mats in aid of the Institu- tion's funds....
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Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 10.17 in the morning of the 28th of February, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had gone ashore at Path Head, and at 10.40 the life-boat James and Ruby Jackson was launched. The' sea was calm...