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Last issue’s Father of Forecast piece charting the life of Robert FitzRoy certainly caught the imagination – here are just some of the many letters and emails we received …
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THE RNLI'S twentieth national lottery draw was made at Poole HQ on January 28 by Anita Harris, who had recentlytaken the name role of Robinson Crusoe in the highly successful pantomime at Poole Arts Centre. The draw was supervised by...
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SEPTEMBER 1992 George Mackay, chairman of Kinghorn station branch since 1988. He had been a member of the branch committee since its inaugeration in 1965 and was elected vice chairman in 1982, taking over as chairman in 1988..
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November 1995 Commander Peter Bolt RN, deputy launching authority at Dun Laoghaire form 1973 to 1982.
Peter joined the Salisbury Branch in 1982 and waselected vice chairman in 1983 until 1984, when he became chairman. Peter...
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HTJNSTANTON, NORFOLK.—The barquentine Vicuna, of Hull, bound from Laurvig, Norway, to Hull, with ice, was observed ashore near Holme Point, at 5.15 P.M. on the 7th March, during a moderate gale of wind from the N.N.E. and a rough...
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 6.30 a.m. on 6th August, 1965, a yawl was reported stopped between Rosehearty and Sandhaven, apparently broken down.
Her crew were waving an oilskin. There was a westerly wind of near gale...
Weymouth, Dorset. At 5.24 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, the coastguard saw a yacht firing red flares three and a half miles south of Lulworth Cove. There was a westerly wind of gale force, and a rough sea. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke...