OCTOBER 10TH. - SHERINGHAM, NOR FOLK. A bomber had been reported down in the sea twenty miles off Wells, but notrace of her was found either by the life-boat or by other vessels and aeroplanes which took part in the search. - Rewards,...
Of 507 Life-boat flag days of which the results have been received, 350 have raised larger sums than ever before. In Greater London half a million more people contributed than in 1939, and the sum raised was £12,528. That is £3,860...
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On the same day the Institution received two gifts, each of two guineas, from masonic lodges. One gift had travelled a few miles, from East London, the other 6,000 miles, from East London in South Africa..
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27 October 2012: The volunteer crew at Castletownbere were denied a Saturday morning lie-in, launching at 5am to a 33m Spanish fishing trawler, which had grounded on the western point of Bere Island, Co Cork. All...
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COntents news including 6 top RNLi AWARds Chetham’s School of Music and Walls’ ice cream stand proudly alongside three gallant lifesavers 7 BUsiest yeAR yet Record rescues and record income in 2006 9 LifeBoAt oN sHoW foR 100 yeARs The...
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A woman life-boat supporter, writing from Italy, recently said that in Chichester on Life-boat Day, 'y°u will not find a single citizen without the life- boat badge'. She added: 'In 1967 my warming experience was the...
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Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 8.20 p.m. on 23rd July, 1966, a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties in Dublin bay. There was a fresh westerly breeze with a choppy sea. The life-boat Dunleary II proceeded at 8.35 on an ebbing tide. She...
SAILS LOST At 1.8 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, a yacht, two and a half miles east of Ramsgate, had her sails carried away and was unable to make harbour. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis left her moorings at 1.15 in a gale force west south...
NOV. 23RD. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.
A red glare or flares had been seen low in the sky and it had been thought that a vessel was on fire but the life-boat could find no vessel needing her help, and trawlers to whom she spoke...
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•1 GOLDEN CHARTER Pre-Paid Funeral Plans How about planning for something that definitely will? THERE COMES A TIME in life when it's natural to consider your own funeral...and to...
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