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Four Signed Maritime Fine Art Prints • BY MICHAEL JAMES WHITEH AND THE CHANNEL FLEET The might of the Channel Fleet sailing for battle against the French.

THE FRIGATES VICTORY NEWS Homeward bound, the swift and strong...

Cromer's famous son Henry Blogg is the most decorated RNLI crew member of all time. What kind of man was this lifeboating legend, and what did he do to earn such accolades? Henry Blogg's time as a crew member and coxswain was an...

1966 £ 273,351 696,080 969,431 1,514,395 196,000 £2,679,826 ENDOWMENT FUNDS (Income only from which is available for expenditure in accordance with donors' directions) RESTRICTED FUNDS (to be applied as directed by donors)...

Bude, Cornwall - At 12.15 P-m. on 30th May, 1966, the IRB was on exercise with a partly trained crew when she received a message that a bather was in difficulties half a mile north west of Bude.

She proceeded immediately in...

APRIL 1ST. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES.

At 12.30 in the afternoon the Kilchoman coastguard reported distress signals between Islay and Colonsay. A strong southeast breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell.

The...

Rosslare Harbour ROSSLARE HARBOUR in County Wexford is, according to the tourist brochures, the heart of the Sunny South East.

Unfortunately, on Friday June 28,1985, it failed to live up to its name. With the naming...

AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 10th day of April, 1856, THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., Deputy-Chairman of the Institution, and Chairman of Lloyd's Register...

LONGHOPE, ORKNEY ISLANDS. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Station at Longhope, on the south side of Hoy, one of the South Orkney Islands, where a lamentable ship- ! wreck, with loss of life, took place some '...