This 1/12th scale model of the 47-foot Watson Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) ex Thurso life-boat is for sale at £290 of which £80 will be donated to the R.N.L.I. Officials of the Institution agree it is one of the finest life-boat...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY...
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A 35-feet 6-inches twin screw self- righting life-boat has been built at Cowes, to the plans and specification of the Institution, for the Turkish State Railways and Harbour Adminis- tration. She left Cowes for Istanbul in April. It is...
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(Ife Jigwa refer to the number* of tte Life-doatt detailed on pagct 42-53.) A Lady, 16. Carting. Miss. 83, 178. Hollond, Mrs., tbe late, 127. Plimsoll Life-boat Funds, 61- A Lady, per Manchester Cyclist...
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The arrival of a new lifeboat on station is an exciting time and greatly anticipated by the crew and the community from which they come. But what will she be like?For many, the RiverTamar simply marks the point where Devon ends and Cornwall...
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Chips off the old block THE To celebrate 35 years in the fish and chip business, proprietors of the Round 'O' Fish Bar in Arbroath, Tony and Elaine Atkinson, offered customers a half price meal for a day and donated the takings of... - View image in PDF
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On May 29 Stornoway's new 48' 6" Solent lifeboat (left) was named Hugh William Viscount Gough in memory of the late Lord Cough, a regular fishing visitor to the island, by his widow, the Viscountess Gough. The lifeboat was... - View image in PDF
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MR. MORRIS LYNDON NICHOLLS, who has been the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Fishguard since 1916, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honours, in recognition of his life- boat work. In...
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Orchids for Aphrodite – Aegean odyssey
by Ursula Haselden
Review by Tracy Carey
Having taken many holidays in Turkey and Greece myself, this book appealed immediately.
This...
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IT is THE PRACTICE in the lifeboat service for the divisional inspector of lifeboats to make a formal visit to each of the offshore lifeboat stations in his division once every six months (every three months for ILBs) for the purpose of...
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