Air support During a weekend in October BBC Radio Newcastle ran a lifesaver appeal to raise money for the lifeboat service.
Listeners rang in to pledge money or to offer items for a charity auction, and many organisations,...
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THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools, has been held this year for the sixteenth time. The number of schools which took part was 2,175, a decrease on last year of 336.
Of this...
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Five saved from foundering yacht When five Danish sailors found themselves in difficulties off the Yorkshire coast with their engine :ailing in appalling weather, the Bridlington lifeboat crew needed all their skill, courage and...
At 8 A.M. on the 17th December, 1932, the s.s. Co- operator, of Fenit, while bound, with a crew of three, from Tralee Canal to Fenit, encountered a strong S.W. gale with a rough sea. She could not make headway, and dropped anchor, but it did...
DAILY EXPRESS I N T E R N A T O N A 23rd 1989 *? ' -a* Following its highly successful debut ID Plymouth, the Daily Express West of England Boat Show has moved lo the Bristol Exhibition Centre in order (o expand the market for...
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At 1.30 A.M.
on the 19th March, during a whole N.N.E. gale and very heavy sea, signals of distress were seen from five Pile Drivers which were moored in the River Humber. The Life-boat Charles Burton was launched and...
THIS question was briefly touched on in the article in this Journal on " The Changes in the Institution's Life-boat Fleet since 1897," published in February last. Not very many years ago it was brought as a charge against the...
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Fos the third year the Staff at the Institution's Storeyard at Poplar, with the help of the Staff at Headquarters, gave a Christmas Tea and Entertain- ment to children living in the neigh- bourhood of the Storeyard. The party was given...
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TflLL3HIP5 BUILD YOUR OWN MARITIME LIBRARY Whether you want to sail vicariously with Clare Francis today or Joshua Slocum last century, should you enjoy learning knots by the fireside or boning up on engines (to be ready for fitting-out or...
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