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Coastal Spring
Look out for the Coastal Spring range of Cornish bottled water in your local shops, bars and restaurants....
Category: Articles
The Fund Raisers
Taking the plunge Thirty-six volunteers made their first parachute jump from 2,000 feet at the Al Skydiving Centre, Newnham in June and three weeks later Jim Marriott, landlord of the Ship Inn and organiser of the jump handed a cheque for...
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The Bull Lightvessel
LIFE-BOAT TAKES SICK MAN OFF LIGHTVESSEL Humber, Yorkshire. At 6.45 on the evening of the 23rd February, 1962, the Humber Conservancy Board in- formed the coxswain superintendent that a sick man on board the Bull lightvessel needed urgent...
Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
AMONGST the most interesting and im- portant subjects which, from time to time, have been treated in The Life-boat Journal, is that of the means to be resorted to for the restoration of the apparently drowned, and it is one in which the...
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Three Souvenir Sellers and Two Competitors (One Fourlegged the Other Two) Pictured at Wootton Creek Branch's Gymkhana
Three souvenir sellers and two competitors (one fourlegged, the other two) pictured at Wootton Creek branch's gymkhana held at Guildford Farm, Havenstreet, Isle of Wight, last summer.
There was beautiful weather and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
AT a press conference held in London on 24th October, Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., Chairman of the R.N.L.I., announced a colourful programme of events to celebrate in 1974 the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the R.N.L.I...
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The Hilda, of Rucorn
.—On the 2nd May the Out-Pensioner Life-boat was launched from this station during a fresh breeze at W.N.W., and rendered important assistance to the Hilda, of Hun- corn, which had gone on shore at Mizen Head..
The Travelling Festival
BESIDES the exhibition on the South Bank of the Thames there were two travelling exhibitions. One by sea and the other by land. The exhibition by sea was mounted in the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Campania, which sailed from Southampton early in...
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The Humber Boat-House
AT Spurn Point, on the Humber, on llth July, a tablet on the Life-boat House was unveiled to the memory of the late Mr. S. Crabtree Helm, of Bradford and Ilkley, who left £2,000 to the Institution, as well as a share in the ultimate...
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The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford - At 6 p.m.
on 27th May, 1967, the honorary secretary was asked by the Irish Lights Office if the life-boat would bring ashore a member of the crew of the Coningbeg lightvessel whose mother was...