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West Country Doctor Honoured
DR. D. I. AITKEN, of Swanage, has been awarded a special certificate on vellum in recognition of the part he played when the Swanage life-boat landed a sick man from the motor vessel Maya of Beirut on ist December, 1966.
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Division of the North of England Into Two Districts
IN making its appeals for public support, the Institution has decided to divide into two Districts the North of England, which up to the end of last year was one District, and which had as its Organizing Secretary the late Mr. Edgar H....
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Brightening Village Life
IT has long been the basis of the Institution's appeal for support that there is not a man or woman in these islands—dependent as they are on overseas trade for their prosperity— who does not directly or indirectly benefit by the...
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Edna
Aith, Shetlands. At 5.40 p.m. on nth November, 1965, a man told the honorary secretary that he had seen a green flare just west of the Island of Vementry. It was one hour to high water when the life-boat John and Francis MacFarlam put out at...
The Finnish Cargo Vessel Puhos
Injured seaman THE MARINE RESCUE CO-ORDINATION CENTRE, Shannon, told Arranmore honorary secretary at 1810 on Saturday December 30, 1978, that a sailor on board the Finnish cargo vessel Puhos had lost three fingers in an...
The Plymouth Life-Boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse Leaving Millbay Docks to go to the Assistance of the Crabber, Sunlit Waters, Broken Down off Penlee on 16th February, 1967
The Plymouth life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse leaving Millbay Docks to go to the assistance of the crabber, Sunlit Waters, broken down off Penlee on 16th February, 1967. A force seven wind was blowing at the time.. - View image in PDF
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Calshot: (I to R) Crew Members John Street Christopher Smith and Peter King With the Inflatable Boarding Boat In Which They Rescued Three Men from Ashlett Creek on The
Calshot: (I. to r.) Crew Members John Street, Christopher Smith and Peter King with the inflatable boarding boat in which they rescued three men from Ashlett Creek on the night of January 29. Winds were gale force 8 gusting to severe gale... - View image in PDF
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Flint (R): the Ilb Given By Sedgley and Wombourne Rotary Club Is Handed Over By Their President John Moore (R) to Honorary Secretary John Latham With Them (I) I
Flint (r.): The ILB given by Sedgley and Wombourne Rotary Club is handed over by their president, John Moore (r.) to honorary secretary John Latham. - View image in PDF
With them (I.) is Richard Pensom, assistant DOS (Wales).. - View image in PDF
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Second Coxswain Keith Bower Torbay: 'When We Got Down Off the Shore a Little Bit We "Tacked" Putting the Wind First on One Bow and Then on the Other'
Second Coxswain Keith Bower, Torbay: 'When we got down off the shore a little bit we "tacked", putting the wind first on one bow and then on the other'.. - View image in PDF
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