For more than 30 years the Lifeboat Mixed Voice Choir of Forest Row, Sussex, has sung carols at Christmas time for the RNLI and, in that time, has raised more than £5,000. What started as a small band of singers has grown into an...
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JANUARY MEETING SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT RHOSNEIGIR RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY. About 11.30 in the morning of the 28th of August, 1941, a British bombing aeroplane crashed in the sea off Rhosneigir.
A gale was blowing from the...
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Q What do a gallantry medallist, a member of the Royal Family and a soap star have in common?
A They are all former members of Storm Force!
There’s one...
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Belfast Lough.
i The Annual Meeting, which was | largely attended, was held on 16th January, the chair being taken by the Lord Mayor, Sir William Coates, Bt., D.L. The financial statement for the...
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Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 19th of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man was stranded on the bank of the river Tees near no. 5 light buoy. There were light south-westerly airs...
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 6.21 a.m.
on 26th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had been sighted in difficulties eight miles west by south of the Skerries lighthouse. The life-boat Lady...
Teesmouth, Yorkshire - At 10.40 p.m. on 7th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor launch Vim, which had left the Tees at 3 p.m. to take stores to the tankerPrimbro anchored in Tees bay, had neither...
JANUARY 8TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
At 1.10 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the Belgian trawler Monte Carlo, of Ostend, appeared to be too close to Langney Point. There was fog and a north wind was...
DECEMBER 7TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
A fishing coble was at sea in very rough weather, but was able to reach safety without help. - Rewards, £12 12s. 6d..
The Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University, Mr. David Owen, has produced a comprehensive and thoroughly entertaining survey of charity in England and Wales—he has little to say on Scotland or Ireland—in the...
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