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Queen Adelaide Pub Putney Bridge Road London
Guess how much is in the bottle! For weeks customers at the Queen Adelaide puh. Putney Bridge Road, London, put their spare cash a large whisky bottle. On the evening of the 'smash' they were asked to hazard a guess as to how much it... - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat Appeals
AN APPEAL has been launched in Nottinghamshire to raise £150,000 to fund a Brede type lifeboat to be named The Nottinghamshire. In support of the appeal, the ex-Scarborough 37ft Oakley lifeboat /. G. Graves of Sheffield (service...
Category: Articles
Vine
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—On the 6th of February, 1957, the motor fishing vessel Vine, of Aberdeen, while return- ing from the fishing grounds to Camp- beltown harbour with a crew of three, struck a reef on the north end of Davaar Island. An...
Benimora
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At ten o'clock on the night of the 7th of September, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was overdue on passage from Milford Haven to Fishguard and that a woman had reported...
Fishing Cobles (2)
HOLY ISLAND.—The No. 1 Life-boat Grace Darling was launched at about 11 A.M. on the 22ad February, the Kev.W. W. F. Keeling, Vicar of Holy Island, and Honorary Secretary of the Institution's branch, taking charge of the boat in the...
Birthday honours
Many of the emergencies that our London lifeboat crews are called to involve immediate risk of drowning, so their 40-knot E class lifeboats are essential.
Now an RNLI engineer has been recognised with an MBE for her role...
Category: Articles
Jo-Anne (1)
Set against a buoy HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat station at 2251 on Friday, July 16, that cries for help heard coming from the vicinity of Sconce Buoy, near Fort Victoria, had been...
Saga Surf
Penlee, Cornwall - At n p.m. on 25th December, 1966, the honorary secretary informed the coxswain that the life-boat would be needed to meet the tanker Saga Surf which had a very sick man on board. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched...
R. and M. J. Charnley
At 6.45 A.M. on the 23rd February last, during a moderate S.W. wind, a vessel was observed ashore on the Goodwin Sands, and signal-guns were fired by the Gull light-vessel. The Bradford Lifeboat at once went out in tow of the harbour...
Agnes and Helen, and Allerton Packet, and Beatrix
GREAT YARMOUTH.—On the 11th November, during a strong 8.8.W. gale and heavy sea, the Abraham Thomas Life-boat was launched at 11.15 P.M., and succeeded in rescuing the crew, 4 in number, from the schooner Agnes and Helen, of Bangor, which...