Hush money: during one Monday in July Lang/on County Primary School, Ma/ton, North Yorkshire, must have been the quietest school in the country. A sponsored silence was held, with junior pupils being quiet for an hour while the infants kept... - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 15TH. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.
At 4.15 P.M. coastwatchers reported by telephone that the motor fishing boat Excelsior, of Stromness, with a crew of three, was overdue, and had last been seen three miles off. The weather...
A major tool supply company has pledged its support to the RNLI Flood Rescue Team (FRT) – for the next 3 years.
Toolstation, with more than 80 branches around Britain, has already made a significant contribution to the...
Category: Articles
ANSTRUTHER, FIFBSHIEE.—The Lifeboat Royal Stuart was launched at 9.30 A.M. on the 1st March, and remained afloat until several fishing-boats, which had been overtaken by a whole gale from S.E. and a very heavy sea, had safely entered the...
THE ocean lies in peaceful sleep, Its waters murmuring low, The tumult of the waves is gone, And Boreas presses slow.
The sky now frowns and grim the arch That spans the watery way, The sea full rises in revolt And joins in...
Category: Songs
30th October.
A man was believed to have fallen over the cliffs at Birsay, and the Life-boat helped in the search but nothing was found.—Rewards, £11 5s. 6d..
THE honorary secretary of the Bexhill- on-Sea branch recently sent out a personal appeal to his own friends.
The result was nearly £21, and subscrip- tions came to him from as far afield as Switzerland, India and...
Category: Donations
The sea is one of the forces of Nature. So also, it seems, to a sea faring people, is the life-boat service.
A letter has been received addressed to " Royal Natural Life-boat Institu- tion.".
Category: Articles
16th June. A yacht capsized during a race, but another yacht picked up the crew. Mr.
David Plunket put off from the shore in a motor boat and quickly brought the rescued men ashore. A letter of thanks was sent to...
The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum.
The THANKS OF THE INSTITUTION, INSCRIBED ON VELLUM, has been awarded to Mr. EDWARD BONING, on his retirement, after 15J years as honorary secretary of the Caister...
Category: Awards