Margate, Kent. — At 4.41 on the afternoon of the 5th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that two yachts appeared to be ashore on Margate sands some four and a half miles from Margate pier. The life- boat North Foreland (Civil...
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OXE of the notable Life-boat events of 1930 was the great increase in the amount contributed to the Institution by Scotland. In a year in which of the eight districts into which Great Britain and Ireland are divided for the purpose of the...
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Capsized trimaran FOUR MINUTES after HM Coastguard had alerted Berwick-upon-Tweed crew and honorary secretary, at 1631 on May 31, 1975, to tell them that a trimaran had capsized 2\ cables outside the harbour entrance, the D class ILB was...
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Thousands of people are feeling that warm glow of satisfaction after sharing a hearty meal for the RNLI Fish...
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Anyone interested in the organization of a major charity will find Two Ears of Corn by Mervyn Jones (Hodder and Stoughton, 2i/-) a stimulating work.
This is the story of the growth of Oxfam from an inaugural meeting held by...
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On the 27th September, at 3.30 A.M., signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Fairlie and Jane, of Beaumaris, bound from Dublin from Llanaelhaiarn in ballast, during a strong gale from the W.S.W., the Thomas Fielden Lifeboat put...
Coxswain Patrick Sliney, of Ballycotton, who has already won the Institution's gold and bronze medals, has now won its silver medal for saving an Irish steamer and her crew of 35 men. The steamer's engines had failed and heavy seas...
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When a catamaran capsized on 15th July the Margate, Kent, life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) went out in a north westerly gale with a very rough sea.
At about 11.30 a.m. the Trinity House cutter Penlee reported...