Gala brings history alive Two stars of the popular television series Heartbeat, helped draw the crowds at Whitby's lifeboat gala, over the weekend of the 29 and 30 July, when they performed a champagne launch on the town's restored...
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Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.27 in the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1948, the Jury Gap coastguard telephoned that a yacht was making very heavy weather about one and a half miles south-south-east of the Gap, and the motor life-boat...
FOE several years past the officers of) the MERSEY DOCK AND HARBOUR BOARD have been so much occupied and pressed by their many important duties that they have found it simply impossible to give the attention and care which they could have...
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Give yourself something to look forward to after the Christmas and New Year celebrations are over and get 2007 off to a great start, with this fabulous 30-day Caribbean Winter Sunshine Cruise departing directly from...
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At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 24th day of March, 1888, His Grace The DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, E.G., President of the...
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The chief helmsman of St Abbs' lifeboat.
Alastair Crowe (left) receives a cheque for £41.385 from Douglas Cameron, broadcaster with LBC Radio, the result of an appeal arranged via LBC and Marinecall to fund new... - View image in PDF
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Jan. 9. — Voted 42. to four fishermen for putting off in a boat and saying four men whose boat bad been capsized while returning to tbeir vessel, the Baron Hill, of Liverpool, which was lying off Exmouth, in a strong W. gale on the 4th...
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DOCTOR TREATS INJURED MEN IN LIFE-BOAT Anstruther, Fife. At 3.1 on the afternoon of the 17th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Frederick T. Everard of London had two injured men on board who...
JANUARY 14TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
At 6.55 A.M. a message was received from the Hope Cove coastguard that a vessel half a mile S.S.W. of Hamstone Rock required help. A light easterly breeze was blowingand the sea was smooth....
DON'T you see the signal seaward? Can't you hear the rocket scream? Men and women start and listen, children waken from a dream; All the village wakes to action, all the storm is on the yell—- Buckle on your life-belts, brothers!...
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