PENZANCE.—On the 17th May, soon after 10 A.M., a mounted messenger armed at Penzance -with the HOTS that abrig was ashore at Perran, five miles eastward of that port. The wind was blowing strongly from S., and the sea was somewhat heavy at...
Cromer THE new 48-foot 6-inch Oakley life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed was named at Cromer on 2ist June, 1967. She was given to the R.N.L.I, and her replacement provided for in perpetuity by Mrs. R. M. Reed, of Eastbourne, in memory of her...
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Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aberdovey, Merionethshire Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Amble, Northumberland Arran (Lamlash), Buteshire Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Bangor, Co. Down Barmouth, Merionethshire Barrow,...
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AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd November, a wireless message was received at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Lightship could see flares four to five miles to the north-west. A whole gale was blowing from...
Municipal Life Assurance announces a unique new fund-raising campaign in partnership with the R.N.L.I.
How your investment in a top-performing unit trust or savings plan will help to pay for a new R.N. L.I....
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Municipal Life Assurance announces a unique new fund-raising campaign in partnership with the R.N.L.I.
How your investment in a top-performing unit trust or savings plan will help to pay for a new R.N. L.I....
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THE ROYAL EVENT OF THE YEAR! The 40th Anniversary of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II's Accession to the Throne.
SIX MAGNIFICENT COMMEMORATIVE PIECES TO HONOUR THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF H.M. QUEEN ELIZABETH ll ACCESSION TO THE...
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Superb performance and style The streamlined WAVE® music system produces a richness of sound you’d ordinarily expect only from bigger, more expensive hi-fis.
Bose U.S. patented dual waveguide speaker technology...
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Although fishing vessels only make up some 14 per cent of RNLI call outs, more fishermen die at sea than any other group of sea user. It is widely recognised that fishing is the most dangerous industry in the worldIt was in 1994 that the...
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Photographs are very much part and parcel of THE LIFEBOAT of today - but in Victorian times matters were very different. Barry Cox, the RNLFs Honorary Librarian, on loan from the National Westminster Bank, looks back at the very early...
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