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By SHEILA MARY WICKS (10|), The Heston Junior Mixed School, Heston, Middlesex.
"A GALLANT RESCUE." BY THE COXSWAIN OP A LIFE-BOAT.
IT was a dark, stormy night in the middle of a terrible...
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MARCH 27TH. - AMBLE, NORTH-UMBERLAND. At midnight on the 26th March the coxswain was asked by the naval officer commanding the Tyne area to take a sealed message to Coquet Island, and the motor life-boat Elizabefh Newton, on temporary duty...
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
The Joseph and Mary, 84 feet by &i feet, 10 oars.
THE port of Poole is situated on the N.E. shore of the picturesque bay of that name. When the tide is in, and the extensive mud flats covered, the scenery is striking...
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(Left) Hull of Atlantic 21 B537 Stationed at Blackpool Looking Aft With Deck Removed Forward of Fuel Tank Bays Either Side of Centreline Division Floors Are Shaped to R
(Left) Hull of Atlantic 21 B537, stationed at Blackpool, looking aft with deck removed. Forward of fuel tank bays, either side of centreline division, floors are shaped to receive flexible trim tanks. Outboard of fuel tank compartments, port... - View image in PDF
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1909
Jan. 8.—Eight men promptly put off in a coble and saved three men from a small pleasure oobla who were overtaken by bad weather when out fishing off Berwick-on- Tweed.—Reward, il.
Jan. 11.—Six men put off in a coble during...
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Busy first year for Thames lifeboats Thames lifeboats were called out over 800 times during their first year of service. This is almost three times as many as estimated prior to setting up the service on 1 January 2002. Callouts range from...
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One Stop Beyond, Racing In Dublin Bay on 22nd August, 1969,
When the dinghy One Stop Beyond, racing in Dublin Bay on 22nd August, 1969, broke her rudder near the harbour and started drifting seawards, her crew of two used paddles in the near gale force wind to reach security of a... - View image in PDF
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JULY 15TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A steamer was reported to have been bombed and sunk by enemy aeroplanes, but the lifeboat found nothing except a patch of oil.
Another vessel picked up an injured man in a...
Special Trust Funds Income Account, 1903
SPECIAL TRUST FUNDS To TRANSFERS TO INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT (see p. 35) £. s. d. £. i. d.
Blake Life-boat Maintenance Fund 38 13 2 Dunnett Widows and Orphans Fund 128 11 11 Reardon Samaritan Fund...
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Ada Mary
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 10.45 on the night of the 20th of November, 1950, a resident of Leigh - on - Sea reported that red rockets had been seen off Leigh. At 11.8 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched. The sea...