THE approximate value of vessels of all nation- alities, with their cargoes, lost in all parts of the world during the year 1880, was no less than 68,327,000?., including British property 47,495,000?.
The grand total number...
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Late in 1995, seven members of Dunbar lifeboat crew and their Coxswain, Noel Wright, attended the pre-commissioning training for their new Trent class lifeboat at RNLI headquarters in Poole. The final part of the course was their passage...
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GOLDEN CHARTER FUNERAL PLANS The only plan recommended , by the National Society of Allied So Independent Funeral Director! HAVE YOU EVER tried to speak to your family about when you're gone? If they don't want to listen, it's...
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 156 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to December 31st, 1949 ...
76,724 Into the Dragon's Mouth IN the...
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THE Institution is again issuing a life-boat Christmas card and calendar.
They will both have reproduced on them in colours a picture, specially g linted for the Institution by Mr.
ernard Gribble...
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CHARACTER never alters, but it may be influenced, instructed and guided, and never so well as in the days of child- hood and early youth. Whilst it is of the utmost importance that the young should be encouraged to be industrious, thrifty...
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Larry Lamberton (right), Whitstable lifeboat station honorary secretary and crew member Nick Dawkins (centre) recently received a cheque for £500 from Ian Pearson, manager of Brett Asphalt.
Last year the company set up... - View image in PDF
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CAISTEB, NORFOLK.—On the morning of the 19th June, the schooner Agile, of and for Goole from London, with, a cargo of chalk, stranded on the Middle Cross Sand. A yawl went to her assistance, but was-unable to get near her owing to the heavy...
GOLDEN CHARTER V F U N E R A L PLANS The only plan recommended by your local SAIF Independent Funeral Director THERE COMES A TIME in life when it's natural to consider your own funeral...and to think about loved ones and what you'd...
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VELLUM FOR BALLYCOTTON COXSWAIN Ballycotton, and Courtmacsherry, Co.
Cork.—At 5.40 in the afternoon of the 6th of November, 1947, Mrs. M. L.
Blake, of Ballycotton picked up a wireless call from the...