THE ex-second coxswain at Padstow, though no longer able to go to sea, still helps the station by making mats out of its old ropes, a craft which he learnt while serving at sea. An active member of the crew also makes them. They are sold...
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THURSDAY, 12th October, 1905.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
" Also read those of the Building, Finance...
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The appeal to, the Army, which the Institution makes each year was sent out in August, 1940. The response up to the end of February 1941, is £5562.
That is fourteen times as much as in 1939. The Army is much larger,...
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High and dry on the Solway Firth From the shifting sand and mud banks of the Solway Firth, the grounded yacht Susiila radioed for help. It took a joint service by Workington and Silloth Lifeboats to locate the yacht and find a way to reach...
Ox the afternoon of Saturday, the 17th of November. 1956, a man who lived at Portland in Dorset. Mr. H.
W. Wilkinson, went out in his 20-feet motor boat Hilda Mari/ from Castletown and made for Portland Bill, where he...
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Re-count . . .
In a branch house-to-house collection two boxes may, rarely, be found to contain the same amount when opened, but how about this ? Two collectors worked on the opposite side of each road in their area,...
Category: Correspondence
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations, in the reading,of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from October 26 to December 6, 1867, are shown in the annexed diagram, together with the directions of...
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For which Rewards were given at the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management.
February Meeting.
F~ Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — On the morning of the 8th January the fishing boat...
Category: Services
In London in December, 1967, Lars Amundsen, the sole remaining male relative of the celebrated South Pole explorer, Roald Amundsen, sold his famous classic collection of British Empire stamps in order to raise funds to pay for a second...
Category: Donations
The coaster Heye P, her wheelhouse swept away, a total wreck on Sea Gull Rock, Prawle Point. photograph by courtesy of W. Budget!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs