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[Reliable oteable Logistical jnvaluable TALUS-MB-C and TALUS-MB-764 were designed and manufactured to meet the exacting requirements of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
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A Canoe
CANOE RECOVERED AFTER GIRL IS SAVED Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th June, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a canoe with a boy in it had capsized off...
The Longest Loaf In the World: Coventry Mercia Round Table Giving Effect to An Idea By Tom Commander Was Responsible In 1975 for a New Entry In the Guinness Book Of
The longest loaf in the world: Coventry Mercia Round Table, giving effect to an idea by Tom Commander, was responsible in 1975 for a new entry in the Guinness Book of Records, and for the raising of about £4,000 for the... - View image in PDF
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(Top) 12-009 Indicates a 12M Long Lifeboat
(Top) 12-009 indicates a 12m long lifeboat (and therefore a Mersey), the leading zero after the dash indicates aluminium or steel (aluminium in the case of Merseysi and the W shows that she is the ninth of the class to be built.. - View image in PDF
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Having Been Given a Monster Potato By a Customer the Landlord of the Sir Douglas Haig Effingham Rod Davis and His Wife Jean Held a Competition to Guess How
Having been given a monster potato by a customer, the landlord of The Sir Douglas Haig, Effingham, Rod Davis, and his wife, Jean, held a competition to guess how many bags of crisps could be made from it. At lOp a guess, £23.60 was soon... - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Desmond Cox
Coxswain Desmond Cox of Appledore gives an unconvincing display of culinary know-how in the bow of the station's Atlantic 21. It was all part of the ladies' guild's successful attempt to draw attention to their new cookery book... - View image in PDF
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Wolverhampton Branch
There is nothing you might not be called upon to do as honorary secretary of an RNL1 fund-raising branch. Bob Proudlock, honorary secretary of Wolverhampton branch, proved this point when West Midlands Police Sub-Aqua Club, having swum five... - View image in PDF
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"God Help the Poor Fellows at Sea!"
FAR away inland, when tempests blow Wild through the dark'ning night, We list to the roar of the winds as they go, On their hurricane steeds to the fight; For the hosts of the Storm-King are gathering fast Where the white-crested waters...
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Leopold, of Riga
About 2 j P.M. on the 18th October, at which time i itt was blowing a heavy gale from E.S.E., - the schooner Leopold, of Eiga, was ob- ; served on the Tay Banks at the mouth of | that river. The Life-boat Mary Hartley, stationed at...
Lifeboat Lottery
The winter 2005 Lifeboat Lottery raised almost £750,000 for the RNLI - thank you! Once again, the quarterly Lifeboat Lottery has broken all records, bringing 2005's total Lottery income to an extraordinary...
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