ON 22nd March last, two dogs were rescued from drowning by the Coxswain of the Hoylake Life-boat and a Coast- guard Officer. The dogs were a spaniel and a terrier. They had run on to a sandbank and remained there until cut off by the tide....
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DECEMBER 8TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL,.
At eleven in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel in distress off The Manacles. A strong north-easterly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat Crawford and...
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...
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By Hugh Stephenson, Honorary Secretary of the Boulmer Branch, and a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
THERE are thirty-four houses in the village of Boulmer. Nine are occupied by Stephensons and...
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Left to right - Mr and Mrs Tomlmson. Andrew Hartwell. MD of George Hartwell Ltd, Brendan Eley, Andrew Malyon, Gerry Knight, Mrs Maylon and Mrs Knight.. - View image in PDF
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The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
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The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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SIR,—When I was in St. Paul's Cathe- dral a few months since, I was moved afresh at the sight of the magnificent monuments to our great naval and mili- tary heroes, particularly those of Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington; and, as I...
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The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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ONE OF THE PEOPLE upon whom honorary life governorship was bestowed at the 1973 annual meeting of the RNLI was Professor William W. Flexner, pho, in recognition of the very valuable help which he has given to the lifeboat service in the...
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