His yacht a 12-ton cutter sailing grounds the East ( and the Thames Estuary.. - View image in PDF
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Morecambe Hovercraft Commander Harry Roberts (right) and the crew of The Hurley Flyer. - View image in PDF
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On Thursday night, the 24th Nov. last, the coast of Northumberland was visited by one of the most fearful storms that have been felt there for many years past, accompanied by one of the heaviest seas remembered —indeed, the heaviest sea that...
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CYPRUS - 2 WEEKS IN A 4-STAR HOTEL FROM £389 ON HB WITH A *3RD WEEK FREE ON B&B Endless days under blue skies with warm sunshine and sparkling sea - Cyprus is an ideal place for a sunshine holiday. Wonderful archeological treasures,...
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Youghal, Ireland.—On the 8th February, the Norwegian barque Galatea ran on shore on the bar at the entrance of Youghal harbour, the captain having mistaken the port for Queenstown : a gale of wind was blowing at the time from the south, and...
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Left - this flower bed, in the shape of an Atlantic lifeboat, was created on a roundabout in Sheerness. The three dimensional display was painstakingly created by inmates of Standford Hill and E/mey prisons for the local ladies guild.... - View image in PDF
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Aith, Shetland Appledore, North Devon Ballycotton, Co. Cork Bar-mouth, Merionethshire Barra Island, Outer Hebrides Barrow, Lancashire Barry Dock, Glamorganshire Beaumaris, Anglesey Blackpool, Lancashire Bridlington, Yorkshire Calshot,...
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LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st September to 30th November: Launches 401, lives saved 195 SEPTEMBER SCOTTISH DISTRICT Wick, Caithness-shire - At 3.50 p.m.
on r6th September, 1966, a message was received...
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A CRANE MOVED into the boatshed at William Osbornes one day last autumn to lift first the twin engines and then the superstructure aboard the 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat which will be RNLB Shoreline.
The engines are twin...
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On May 20, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the RNLI stand at the Music Hall, Aberdeen, and spoke with (I. to r.) Coxswain Albert Bird, Second Coxswain Charles Begg and Motor Mechanic Ian Jack. photograph by courtesy of Aberdeen... - View image in PDF
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