Contents Volume L Number 501 RNLI News.
Lifeboat Services.
Training in focus, with the 1987 medallists.
187 189 194 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J...
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Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 6.2 p.m. on 2nd May, 1966, it was reported that a small fishing boat was drifting on to rocks at St. John's Point, Mey. Thelife-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 6.30 in a slight south...
THE VALUE OF WIRELESS Selsey, Sussex.—At 8.8. in the even- ing of the 15th of April, 1947, the Selsey coastguard reported that on the previous evening a motor launch with a small boat in tow had anchored one and a half miles south of Shelley...
To Mrs. BUSTIN, Mayoress of Bermondsey, in recognition of her valuable co-opera- tion, a Framed Photograph, "The Life- hoat." To Councillor THOMAS R. EGBERTS, Mayor of Lewisham 1920-21, in recognition of his valuable co-operation...
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An exception- ally heavy gale visited the south-west part of England on the 13th December, and during the height of the gale the Life-boat Elizabeth and Blanche was called out to go to the help of a sailing- ship in distress in the bay. The...
Transatlantic sailor Hannah White paddled up a wave of RNLI support in September during a record-breaking 205-mile solo kayak challenge.
Hannah, who is also an adventurer and broadcaster, became the first person to paddle...
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St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - Thirty minutes after midnight on 5th June, 1966, a message was received that the m.f.v.
Sanu was aground at Tresco and her owner had asked for life-boat assistance.
There...
The s.s. Kossuth Ferencz, of Piume, whilst bound from Nicolaieffto Hull with a cargo of wheat, collided with another vessel when near the Haisboro' Sands on the 15th June.
After the collision the vessel stranded on the...
The Beauchamp Life-boat was again called out for service on the morning of the 14th October. The watchman having observed a light in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand, the coxswain, who had just arrived at the beach, looked through the...
Pottering for cash The Potteries Marathon, the second largest marathon in Great Britain, is attended by entrants from all over the British Isles and abroad. Mr Adrian Lucyk, a regular runner dedicated his run on 1 June 1996 to the... - View image in PDF
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