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BOATING HOLIDAYS 'Tiny Purple' Cruise England's beautiful inland waterways.

A special and different holiday aboard our deluxe 6Oft narrowboat.

Exclusive charter 2 to 4 guests.

SEPTEMBER MEETING EGLINTON, Co. LONDONDERRY. About 12.15 in the afternoon of the 16th of December, 1944, the Eglinton coastguard received an SOS from the R.N.A.S. Eglinton, that a Corsair aeroplane had crashed into the sea 200 yards off...

NEWS POINT FIRST AMONG EQUALS Those who find themselves explaining how the RNLI operates, how it is organised and how it is funded are very often asked, "What do other countries do? Is the RNLI unique?". The answer could have been...

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LIFEBOAT SMALL ADS TO HELP YOU FIND YOUR WAY THE PRISMATIC HAND-HELD MARCHING COMPASS This brass compass is made in England to an extremely high standard of specification and is an improved version of the 'Standard Service Type...

Launches 39 Lives rescued 13

AUGUST 3RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.

At three in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel aground south of Holyhead in dense fog. There was no wind and the sea was smooth....

Rough conditions for Brighton's Atlantic Ashort but difficult service by Brighton's Atlantic 75 last December has earned two of her crew the Institution's Thanks on Vellum. Prompt action, good seamanship, a brave swim in rough...

Ix 1946 Colonel Niall Rankin, F.Z.S., F.R.P.S., F.R.G.S., of Calgary, in the Isle of Mull, went out to the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic.

He sailed in October in a whale factory ship, taking with him a motor...