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Manx tales

Date: Winter 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 590

The Isle of Man is an unusual location whose community is inextricably linked to the sea – and the RNLI

Set in the midst of the Irish Sea, encircled by all five nations of the UK and RoI, the Isle of Man (IoM) is actually...

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A Night on the Goodwin Sands

Date: August 1886

Volume: 13

Issue: 141

ON the 20th of April last a grievous disaster occurred on the Goodwin Sands, which resulted in the loss of a Norwegian brig, The Auguste Herman Francke, with six hands out of a crew of seven all told.

All day on the 20th a...

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Wreck of the Indian Chief. Noble Services of the "Bradford" Life-Boat

Date: February 1881

Volume: 11

Issue: 119

THE accompanying graphic accounts of the wreck of the Indian Chief, and of the noble rescue of a portion of her crew by the Bradford self-righting Life-boat, sta- tioned at Ramsgate, appeared in the Daily Telegraph on the 11th and 18th Jan.,...

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Mercantile Credit

Date: Spring 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 484

Help yourself....and the R.N.LI.

s cial rates ans to buy u want- now! Every loan a RNLI member takes out, under a special arrangement with Mercantile Credit Company Limited, means a welcome donation to the R.N.L.I. funds....

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People and Places

Date: Winter 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 555

TV stars draw record breaking lottery Joan Hooley (Josie from EastEnders) and George Sewell (Matt Drayton in The Detectives) drew the winning tickets for the most successful Lifeboat Lottery ever on 26 January. The 92nd draw beat all...

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Norwich Union

Date: Autumn 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 570

Even as they're growing older, your children will still look to you for support.

Especially when the grandkids come along! So, as well as offering words of wisdom, it's good to know you can also lighten the...

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The Storms of Winter. The Return of the Missing Crew

Date: July 1867

Volume: 06

Issue: 65

( With an Illustration.") " THERE'S two ends to every trouble, Mary; there's the end that goes downward and drags us to the earth, and there's the end that goes upwards and draws us to...

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The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom

Date: November 1886

Volume: 13

Issue: 142

LXVII. BRIGHTON.— The Robert Bailees, 32 feet by 7} feet, 10 oars.

IT is not our intention here to enter into a description of so well known a town as Brighton, which has been so happily described as "London by the...

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Fibre-Glass Dory

Date: December 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 426

The standard hull of the Dell Quay dory, referred to on page 464, has been used in the R.N.L.I.'s new experimental boat, but it has been strengthened to enable it to take the steering console.

The hull is of composite...

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The Gunners' Island

Date: June 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 408

PROBABLY the highest subscription per capita of any unit in the regular forces to the Institution is from the St.

Kilda detachment of the Royal Artil- lery Guided Weapons Range in the Outer Hebrides.

This...

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