Norman Croucher, who has two artificial legs, enthralled an audience of 200 people in Topsham recently when he spoke of his amazing climbing exploits.
Norman, who has climbed mountains over five miles high despite his... - View image in PDF
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OUR life-boats can claim to be an inter- national service, not only because they have saved lives and vessels belonging to every country with a seaboard, but because the coins of all countries find their way into the life-boat collecting...
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In the course of the eloquent speech and earnest appeal which H.R.H. The PRINCE OF WALES made as President of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, at the London Life-boat Saturday Dinner on 1st May last, he said, " I am anxious to...
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Thick fog THE WATCHMAN at St Aldhelm's Head Coastguard heard sounds of a vessel striking the rocks below his lookout in thick fog at 2145 on Thursday July 13.
Without delay he alerted the Coastguard Cliff Rescue Company...
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS. — At 2.30 A.M. on the 11th April, during strong N.Jf.E. wind and a heavy sea, the Goodwin and Gull Lightships fired signals.
The Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, and the harbour steam-tug Aid, as well...
THE Board of Trade have recently pub- lished, in accordance with their annual custom, a Blue Book overflowing with interesting information and tables of figures such as to delight the most enthusiastic statistician, furnishing elaborate...
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GEEENORE, Co. LOOTH.—On the 3rd April, about 4.30 P.M., the Coastguard observed two steamers approachingCarlingford Lough from seaward, but not by the proper channel. The keepers of the Haulbowline Lighthouse therefore hoisted a signal and...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 10th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man was adrift and in difficulties in a canoe off Yarmouth beach, approxi- mately one mile...
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THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Swanson, of Longhope, in the Orkneys. He has been coxswain since 1900, and during the thirty-three years of his coxswainship the Longhope station has rescued fifty-four lives from shipwreck. He...
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