Margate, Kent. — At 12.4 in the afternoon of the 15th of June, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that three men were waving for help in a broken down motor boat near the rocks at Birchington. Two minutes later the life-boat North Foreland,...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 2nd ofJuly, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a trawler had broken down off Caldy Island. The coast- guard confirmed the report at 5.42 and the...
BLOWN ON TO REEF Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 4.18 p.m.
on 3rd May, 1964, the South Gare lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with a crew of two had been blown on to a slag reef about a quarter of...
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JANUARY 28TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. During a south-westerly gale with a very rough sea H.M.S. Rhyl, a minesweeper, parted her tow from a tug off Felixstowe.
She anchored, but the anchors dragged and she was drifting...
THE first of these letters, from a little boy in Essex, came to the Institution last January, the second followed in September.
DEAR SIR,—My grannie has given me Five shilling to you for the life boat because I don't...
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Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—On the evening of the 8th January the steamer City of Dublin, of Dublin, bound home from Hamburg with a general cargo, ran aground on Arldow Main Bank, about five miles north of the light-vessel.
A...
Margaret treasures her lifeboating inheritance. - View image in PDF
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Medical Insurance that doesn't put on the pounds just because you put on the years. When it comes to private medical insurance, Exeter Friendly Society never increase your premiums simply because you get older.* So the age you join is...
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Christmas cakes are Mrs Ann Martin's speciality and every year she bakes one and presents it as a raffle prize to Denis Morgan, honorary secretary of Shoreline club No 4 in Milton Keynes. So far £200 have been raised by her generous... - View image in PDF
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