Many local organisations and clubs in Filey have arranged special fund raising events throughout the year to help fund Filey' s new Mersey class lifeboat, due on station early in 1991. But none can have been more spectacular than the... - View image in PDF
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 1.36 p.m.
on 4th November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted off Caldy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown slipped her moorings at 1.44 in a...
The following is a list of the services of the boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION during the recent heavy gales:— - ' NO. of Lives saved.
Nov. 16-17,1867.—The Manky Wood life-boat at Poole rescued the crew of...
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BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
—At 3'40 A.M. on the 2nd April, the barque Cedarine, of Bermuda, stranded near Brighstone Grange, with 234 persons on board, 191 of whom were convicts, whose period of punishment at...
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1964 WAS a record year with more launches by rescue craft of the R.N.L.I. than ever before. In 1965 a similar pattern seems to be developing. In two of the three months covered by this edition of THE LIFE-BOAT records were again established....
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 3 P.M. on the 28th February the coastguard reported that a steam drifter, in tow of another drifter and a tug, had parted her towing hawser and was drifting rapidly on to North...
Jazz on a different day Cheltenham branch has recently circulated some 1,000 copies of its busy fundraising diary-but unfortunately the date of the Jazz train event, originally scheduled for 27 July 1996, has had to be changed to 3 August...
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LV. GREAT YARMOUTH.—The Abra- ham Thomas, 28 feet by 9 feet, 10 oars.
LVI. CAISTER. The Covent Garden, 42 feet by 11J feet, 14 oars.
LVII. Ditto. The Godsend, 33JL feet by 10 feet, 12 oars.
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Anniversary Morning Market Harborough ladies' guild celebrated its 21st anniversary year by holding a birthday coffee morning at the home of Mrs Roland Orton, president and founder of the guild.
The party was to thank...
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The final hull form of the Mersey, seen during the self-righting trials of ON 1125, a pre-production prototype. (Photo Downland Studios). - View image in PDF
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