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Two Barges

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

MARCH 5TH. - WALMER, KENT. Two large barges, which had broken away from a tug, were drifting towards the Goodwin Sands. The life-boat went alongside them and made sure that there was no one on board. She could not take them in tow, and as...

H.M.S. St. Kitts

Date: Summer 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 359

Portrush, Co. Antrim-.—On the llth of July, 1951, H.M.S. St. Kitts was visiting Portrush. Two ratings went ashore for stores; but sudden bad weather prevented them going aboard again with them. The St. Kitts' Com- manding Officer...

Mrs Edith Townend

Date: Winter 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 523

Mrs Edith Townend, founder member of the reformed Bridlington ladies' guild in 1946, she held continuous office and was vice president when she died. Mrs Townend was awarded a Silver badge in 1957, a Gold badge in 1968 and a bar to the...

Category: Obituaries

Ridesdale

Date: February 1879

Volume: 10

Issue: 111

RAMSGATE.—On the 13th November, at 3 A.M., during a fresh breeze from the E.N.E., signals were fired from the Gull lightship, in response to which the Bradford Life-boat and steam-tug Aid proceeded to the sands, and found a barque ashore...

A Sailing Boat

Date: September 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 389

Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 11.59 on the night of the 9th of May, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a sailing boat with one man on board, which had last been seen off the west pier earlier that day, had not returned to...

A Sailing Boat

Date: December 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 398

Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 8.17 on the morning of the 15th August, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message from the Bailey lighthouse that the Arklow lightvessel had picked up a sailing boat with five people...

Classifieds

Date: Summer 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 457

20p per word; Minimum 10 words FUND RAISING Advertising pencils, superb ballpens, combs, diaries, each gold stamped Lifeboat name, etc., raise funds, quickly easily. Bran Tub Toys: samples from Northern Novelties, Bradford BD1...

Category: Advertisement

Royal Visitor:

Date: Spring 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 496

Royal visitor: Princess Anne discusses lifeboating with Helmsman Bob Fossetl when she visited Southend in May to name the town's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat Percy Garon II.

Before the naming ceremony, the Princess had... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Norwich Union

Date: Summer 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 569

GREAT NEWS FOR HOMEOWNERS OVER 60 Enrich your retirement with thousands to spend With a Norwich Union Equity Release plan, you could cash in on your home's real value and enjoy the benefits: • Live life to the full with extra cash •...

Category: Advertisement

Sarah Elizabeth

Date: August 1893

Volume: 15

Issue: 169

RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS.—Signal guns having been fired by the Gull and North Sand Head light-vessels on the 14th January, the Life-boats Bradford, of Ramsgate, and Christopher Waud, Bradford, of Broadstairs, left their stations at 7.45 P.M....