DUO CENTURY MAP roou This exciting map affords the unique opportunity to see an Ordnance Survey I ktoriun First Edition (circa 1880) and a current Landranger map of your area side-by-side in a stunning...
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Two magnificent efforts by children in Ipswich have raised enough money to buy 112 sets of ear defenders for lifeboat crews. The top three classes ofWhitehouse Infants School hoped to raised £100 with a sponsored spell; they actually... - View image in PDF
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EARLY in the afternoon of the 9th December, 1938, the open motor crabber, Channel Pride, of Dartmouth, was overtaken by a sudden gale off Coombe Point, Dartmouth. She had two men on board. Her skipper decided to return at once, but the...
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A boat with its own fascinating RNLI history set out on a perfect day last Summer. Little did her crew know it was to be her last voyage …
‘We set off in ideal conditions – you couldn’t have...
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The Duke of Kent meets Torbay lifeboat crew members Photo: Al Macphee @ Miracle. - View image in PDF
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• Richard Evans of Moelfre has now joined the distinguished band of lifeboatmen of whom a full-length biography has been written. This is Lifeboat VC by Ian Skidmore (David and Charles, £4.95).
The great rescues from...
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Clem 1, RNLI 250 A chance meeting with Ray Clemence, former England, Liverpool and Tottenham goalkeeper, raised £250.27 for the Clapham, Battersea and Wandsworth branch.
Joe Perry, a set builder for TV shows, met Ray...
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January storm BRONZE MEDALS AT 1137 ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1988 the Blackpool station honorary secretary, Mr Rowland Darbyshire was alerted by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that a small vessel had fired red flares 11/4 miles north north west...
On the 8th of November, 1956, the St. David's life-boat was launched to help the French trawler Notre Dame de Fatima, which was in distress three miles south-west of Skokholm light.
The life-boat rescued the trawler'...
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