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The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
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JANUARY 1 8TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
At 10.25 A.M. the naval officer in charge at Lerwick asked for the services of the life-boat to bring three wounded German airmen from Fair Isle, where their Heinkel bomber had been...
The Rescue of Two Dogs
ON 22nd March last, two dogs were rescued from drowning by the Coxswain of the Hoylake Life-boat and a Coast- guard Officer. The dogs were a spaniel and a terrier. They had run on to a sandbank and remained there until cut off by the tide....
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Death of Mr. John Walter. Memento Mori
MYSTERIOUS are the ways of God to man! We would willingly believe, nay, we dare not disbelieve, that God's dealings with man are always just; that whatever direction his journey through life may take, or terminate when or how it may, it...
Category: Obituaries
John Chapman: Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat Fund
'A one-eyed, cantankerous and troublesome fellow'1: thus, leaning back in his chair, pipe in hand and smiling happily, does John Chapman describe himself.
But the smile belies the words, for it is the smile of a man...
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The Barge Sepoy, of Dover, on the Sands at Cromer
The barge Sepoy, of Dover, on the sands at Cromer. Her sails in ribands. Her crew of two men taking to the rigging. A life-saving rocket on its way to her.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.R.H. The Prince George, K.G., at Aldeburgh. Inaugural Ceremony of the New Motor Life-Boat
ON 27th May, H.R.H. the Prince George, K.G., named the new Motor Life-boat stationed at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. This is the seventh Motor Life-boat to be named by the Prince.
The Aldeburgh boat is the first of a new type...
Category: Inaugurations
The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
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Caribou
SEPTEMBER 14TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. During the afternoon the local motor fishing boat Caribou was reported to be overdue, and at 4.30 P.M. the motor life-boat Lady Harrison was launched. A fresh squally S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
Death of a Head Launcher
EARLY on the evening of the 28th of August, 1957, a schoolmaster went to the harbour at Staithes in Yorkshire with a number of his pupils to bathe.
There was a light north-westerly wind blowing, and outside the harbour the...
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