Above (l-r): Gavin McGuiness, Paul Savage and Anne Millman. - View image in PDF
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THE BOARD OP TRADE have recently! issued their very interesting Annual Blue Book, furnishing abstracts of the returns made to the Board of shipping casualties occurring on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom. The statistics now...
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DURING 1937 help was given by foreign life-boat services to 21 British vessels.
Four of these services were by France, 2 by Iceland, 1 by Holland, 1 by Belgium, 1 by Norway and 15 by the United...
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Sponsored walks, sails, silences, swims . . . Joan Manning, DOS (Midland Shires), greets Adam Chinery and Graham Pocock, of Wrekin College, as they arrive at Worcester at the end of a 100-mile sponsored paddle from... - View image in PDF
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GIRVAN.— On the 1st February a very heavy sea was running outside the bar, and as the gale was freshening, the crew of the Life-boat were summoned, two of the fishing-boats, the Sophia and the Bonny Loch Ryan, not having returned from the...
THE machinery of modern civilization is so complicated, and moves, withal, so smoothly and silently, that the majority of people never give a thought to its intricacies, or to the constant effort and strain which the smooth working...
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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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Presentations and celebrations go together. . . . When Coxswain Edgar Moore (I.) of Newhaven retired after 16 years service, his station presented him with a model of Kathleen Mary made by Mr Osbourne and Mr Fox of Christchurch. Mrs P.... - View image in PDF
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A schoolgirl, a fairy, a clown, a nurse and a baby from Dunfermline crawled round their local pubs—soft drinks only—and collected £180 for the RNLI. In real life they are (I to r) Hilary and Mick Fairhurst, Tony Taylor, Valerie and... - View image in PDF
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(Right) A visit to St Mary's lifeboat station while holidaying in the Scil/y Isles 22 years ago began a lifelong interest in lifeboats for Mr and Mrs Derrick Waters. Since then, they and their children, Carolyn, Stephen and David, have... - View image in PDF
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