Chairman of Filofax PLC, Mr David Collischon, presents the director Rear Admiral W. J.
Graham with a cheque for £3,250. The cheque was a percentage of profits made from the sale of Filofax personal organisers made from... - View image in PDF
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AT 9.30 on the night of the 19th of October. 1955, the son of Coxswain George Flett of the Aberdeen no. 1 life-boat heard a vessel in the bay blowing her siren continuously. He telephoned this information to the honorary secretary of the...
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Spirit of Lowestoft Lowestott's New Tyne Class Waits For Her Official Name With Gorleston's Waveney and Southwold's Atlantic 21 In The Background. - View image in PDF
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WHITBY.—At about 5.30 P.M., on the 3rd of May, the sloop Wear, of Sunderland, bound from Hartlepool for Walcott with coal, while attempting to enter the harbonr in a very heavy sea, missed the entrance, became unmanageable, drifted into the...
Classification of service launches of life-boats for 7970 compared with 7969 Class —Naval vessels —Foreign going merchant vessels —Home trade merchant vessels —Commercial fishing vessels —Powered pleasure craft —Sailing pleasure craft...
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Eastern Division Three rescued THE WARDEN of Burnham Overy Yacht Club, Peter Beck, was told at 1100 on Thursday April 17, 1980, that someone was shouting for help in Overy Staithe Harbour. Mr Beck, who is also an auxiliary coastguard,...
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Lifeboat development • I was interested to read Captain Williamson Jones' letter in THE LIFEBOAT for July (page 8). I would like to make the following points: 1—My article was a reprint from the Yachting World where it was headed...
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OCTOBER 2ND. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.
A steamer had been bombed and set on fire by a German aeroplane, but the Irish patrol steamer Fort Rannock rescued the crew.- Rewards, £17 0s. 3d..
Building into the millennium Shoreworks manager Howard Richings reaches the final leg of his epic voyage - travelling from Aith, in the Shetland Islands, to Eyemouth on the Scottish mainland.It is appropriate that we commence the final leg...
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