(Below) There were no open days in 1994 as the new facilities at Cowes were under construction. This was the first opportunity for visitors to see how the Atlantics are built and maintained in their new purpose-built workshops.. - View image in PDF
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WEATHER-BOUND IN TORBAY Torbay, Devon.—During the morning of the 7th of January, 1948, officers of two London steamers, Fulham III and Fulham VI, weather-bound in Torbay while on passage in ballast to Barrv, had come ashore to buy provisions...
Festivities in Courtmacsherry Harbour during the naming ceremony for the station's new Trent Class Frederick Storey Cockburn with the station's previous boat, the Waveney class Arthur and Blanche Harris, visible astern of the new... - View image in PDF
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Mrs. B. E. Ragg, of Kenilworth, is 76 years old and during the four days of the Royal Show last year collected nearly £160. Considering that the weather throughout the show was extremely hot, for a 76-year-old collecting for Jive or six...
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Pull a boat: Members of Portballintrae Boat Club in County Antrim held a boat pull and raised £1,464 for the RNLI.. - View image in PDF
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lakes a bit of will power to give up vour daily bag of crisps at school during Lent but Robert Crumble, aged six, decided this would be his sacrifice for his school's Lenten collection.
The money not spent on crisps... - View image in PDF
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Crew Members Phil Cowie, Jason Coombes and Nick Prout watch from the lifeboat while Jonathon Whitfield and his sister, Julie White, pour champagne over the bows during the naming ceremony Photo: Mike Lang. - View image in PDF
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Selsey, Sussex. — At 9.12 in the morning of the 19th of September1951, returning fishermen reported that a converted motor torpedo boat was moored to the Ledge Buoy three miles south of Bracklesham, with her engines broken down,...
MAY 22ND. - ABERDEEN, AND TORRY LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS. At 5.26 in the afternoon the harbour master reported that H.M. motor torpedo boat 2007 had stranded one hundred and fifty yards east of the old south breakwater. A north-easterly wind...
From ist April to 30th June, 1964, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 76 times. On nine occasions—described in chronological order below—they were able to rescue people in difficulties.
Walmer, Kent. At 4.14...
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