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Mayday is the RNLI's biggest fundraising campaign of the year.
Our crew members don't do anything by halves; when the call comes, they drop everything to save lives. But...
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BOATING is rapidly growing in popularity.
Thousands have gone afloat for the first time this year. Doubtless next year thousands more will be doing likewise. In all the excitement of selecting and buying a craft of one kind...
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Extended lifeguard season saves the dayBeach lifeguards at Perranporth were surprised to see a horse and rider galloping up to them on the afternoon of 26 October 2003 Two horse riders had been enjoying a sunny autumn day on Perran Sands...
THERE can be few Englishmen who are not aware that during several years past a very uneasy feeling has pervaded the British mind as regards the general status of our "Mercantile Marine," alike as regards the vessels of which it is...
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Oslo is an ideal setting for a gathering of life-boats. The city lies at the head of a long narrow fjord with moderately high land on either side. There is no slum area and the quays are only a few minutes walk from the centre of the town....
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Belfast Lough.
i The Annual Meeting, which was | largely attended, was held on 16th January, the chair being taken by the Lord Mayor, Sir William Coates, Bt., D.L. The financial statement for the...
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Greater London.
BROMLEY AND COVENT GARDEN.— Life-boat Days.
BALING.—Addresses to Groavenor Ward Women's Conservative Association and the Rotary Club by the District Organizing Secretary. Life-boat...
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Launches 53. Lives rescued 27.
MAY 1ST. - CROMARTY. At 7.40 A.M. a message was received from the Cromarty coastguard that two airmen had been seen in the sea off Brora, and at 8.20 A.M. the motor life-boat James Macfee was...
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ME. NORMAN N. DODDS, Member of Parliament for Dartford, asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation on the 8th of December, 1954, "if, in view of the rescue by a United States helicopter from the South Goodwin lightship when all...
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Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 6.29 on the evening of the 12th of March, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the tanker Adroity, of London, had run on the sands about two miles south-east- by-east of the coastguard station. At 7.20 the...