EXMOUTH—On the 20th May, at 12.30 P.M., a fishing-boat was observed in distress outside the bar, a strong S.W. gale having sprung up suddenly accompanied by a heavy sea. The Life-boat Joseph Somes was immediately launched, but before she...
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 8.5 in the morning of the 29th of September, 1951, Valentia Radio reported that a man was adrift in a ship's boat off the Bull Rock Lighthouse, and the life- boat A.E.D. was launched at 8.20. A south-easterly gale...
To organise a massive cheese and wine evening with more than 200 guests is no mean achievement when you are over eighty, confined to a wheel-chair and reliant on the telephone for making all arrangements. Nevertheless, the irrepressible Mrs...
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Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
Salty sea-dogs John, Jeremy and Julian Brown, Trevor Grills, John Lethbridge, Billy Hawkins, Peter Rowe, John McDonnell and Jon Cleave form the current...
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Contents RNLI News. 75 Volume L Number 498 Lifeboat Services. 77 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL The RNLI in Ireland, by Edward Wake-Walker 83 Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI Waiting for Rescue part II, by J. D....
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Poole HQ and Depot JULY 19 TO 21 FOR THREE DAYS IN JULY, the Poole head office and depot buildings opened their doors wide to show RNLI supporters and the public at large exactly how the lifeboat service is run. This was the second time open...
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AFTER the Annual Meeting, which was held in the Central Hall, Westminster, the Prince of Wales paid a private visit to the Westminster Hospital to see Miss Hannah Denham, who for many years had been a patient in the incurable ward, and who...
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As was announced in The Life-boat for last November, Miss Margaret Power, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch, has formed a stamp club to sell postage stamps for the benefit of the Institution....
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THREE BOATS CALLED Bembridge, Isle of Wight, Selsey and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.5 p.m. on i8th February, 1964, the coastguard told the Bembridge honorary secretary that a naval Sea Hawk aircraft was missing between St. Catherine's...
During a moderate S.W. to W. gale, with a heavy sea, a message was re- ceived at 7.15 P.M. on the 10th January that at 3.15 P.M. the fishing boat L'Arguenon, of St. Malo, was in diffi- culties. The crew of the Motor Life- boat Queen...