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Main Photo: the Stornoway-Based Coastguard Helicopter
Main photo: The Stornoway-based Coastguard helicopter exercises with Barra lifeboat - photo John Booth HMCG Barra.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gower Pride
Saviours at the sand When faced with 3m swells, notorious sandbanks and a drifting, rolling fishing vessel, it cannot be easy to stay calm. But the composure and courage of a helmsman and her crew in just such conditions saved two lives -...
Ceremonies
Silloth - Atlantic 75 Spirit of Cumbria and new lifeboat house St Bees - new lifeboat house Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent had a busy two days in October when, during a tour of Cumbria, she named one lifeboat and opened two new...
Category: Inaugurations
Londesborough
PALLING, NORFOLK.—In response to signals of distress, during thick weather, a moderate breeze from the S.W., and a rough sea, the Life-boat British Workman was launched, at 8.30 A.M. on the 31st December, and proceeded to the Hasborongh Sand...
The American Steamer Lawrence D. Tyson
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. A vessel had been reported in distress nineteen miles away, but the life-boat was recalled as the vessel, the American steamer Lawrence D. Tyson, had been taken in tow. - Rewards, £8 1s....
H.M. Hospital Ship Rohilla
Whitby, Upgang, and Scarborough, Yorkshire ; Tynemouth, Northumberland.
—These boats were all engaged in connexion with the wreck of H.M.
Hospital Ship Bohilla on the 30th October-lst November,...
Martell Cognac
Martell. The supreme cognac • Martell cognac is guaranteed to have been distilled exclusively from a selection of the best wines grown in the Cognac district of France.
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Category: Advertisement
Two Boats
Wading neck high TWO SMALL BOATS trying to enter Cullercoats Bay were seen at 1645 on Saturday April 14, 1979, by ILB Crew Member Christopher Blackman, aged 19, and his 16-year-old friend Jeffrey Storey.
It was a fine day...
Padstow Lifeboat Station Celebrates 175 Years of Saving Lives at Sea
Padstow has the second-oldest established lifeboat station in Cornwall. It was set up on 24 January 1827 mainly as a result of the efforts of Commander Williams, chief officer of coastguards. He collected C30 towards the cost of providing a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In Gratitude for Fifty Years of Married Happiness
AN anonymous gift of £2 has been received from a man and wife " in gratefulness for the blessings received during fifty years of married life.".
Category: Donations