Drama after the draw! The former Beirut hostage, John McCarthy, and comedienne Sandi Toksvig drew a massive crowd to Weymouth's harbourside when they kept a promise to the RNLI to pick the winning tickets in the 66th National Lottery.<...
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South West Division Dismasted yacht AT 1330 on Sunday August 11, 1985, Portland coastguard received a 999 call from a member of the public reporting he had seen a yacht firing a white flare about a mile and a half south of Lulworth Cove. The...
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Crew member Graham Raines - awarded the Bronze medal for his part in the rescue of a crew man from the yacht Dingaling.. - View image in PDF
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As the last of the sailing life-boats was replaced by a motor life-boat on the 12th of December, 1948, the term motor lifeboat will no longer be used. " Life-boat" will mean "motor life-boat." The one boat remaining which...
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Aith, Shetlands. At 10.20 a.m. on 1st December, 1965, at the request of the local medical officer of health, the lifeboat John and Frances Macfarlane was launched in a moderate north westerly breeze and in a rough sea to take a doctor and a...
ST MARY'S, ISI.KS OK sciu.v, Saturday July 26, 1986: the crew of the 52ft Arun class relief lifeboat Duchess of Kent, on temporary duty at St Mary's, assembled, ready to launch, after Falmouth Coastguard telephoned to say that a...
ON the 5th of June, 1952, Mrs. Sean O'Kelly, the wife of the President of the Republic of Ireland, named at Wexford the new Rosslare Harbour life-boat, which the committee of management had decided, with the approval of the government of...
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Clovelly, Devon.—At 11.20 on the night of the 15th cf May, 1948, the Rev.
H. C. A. S. Muller, of Appledore. landed in a small boat from the motor pleasure boat Kingsley, of Barnstaple, and reported that the boat's...
(Right) Looking aft, showing neoprene pipe from scoop to manifold, and pipes from manifold forward to ballast and trim tanks. Bevel gearbox for operation of manifold valve supported in position over bracket between longitudinals.. - View image in PDF
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A beach out of reach Even strong swimmers can be caught out, struggling in sight of land. Carol Waterkeyn reports Sunday 3 June 2007 was a memorable day for all the wrong reasons. A family holiday nearly turned into a disaster when Carolyne...
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