A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
OUR Great Exhibition—nay, the World's Great Exhibition—is open to the world's view at last. T'he most numerous, the grandest collection of the useful works of man that was ever brought together within the walls of a single...
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SPANIARD WAS ILL At 4.30 p.m. on 23rd December, 1964, the army authorities in Benbecula reported that a Spanish seaman on the Isle of St. Kilda was seriously ill with suspected typhoid, and that as a helicopter could not help, the life-boat...
The first of the new 52-foot glass reinforced plastic life-boats to be built from the latest 52-foot prototype fast afloat boat (see pictures page 109) designed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is to be paid for by voluntary...
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11 ! iiJlll «& GOLDEN CHARTER R ' N l - K A L PLANS THE ONLY FUNERAL PIAN RECOMMENDED BY THE NATION*. SOCIETY OF ALLIED & INDEPENDENT FUNERAL DIRECTORS •box YOUR CHILDREN PROBABLY WON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THIS, HAVE YOU...
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JUNE 3RD. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea six miles S.W. of the life-boathouse, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £13 14s..
MARCH 27TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. At 11.30 A.M. the coxswain received a telephone message from the RAF. that a Hurricane aeroplane had crashed into the sea opposite the South Promenade, about five miles west, and the motor life-boat Sarah...
While on service to the coaster Heye P, wrecked at Prawle Point in severe gales last December, Salcombe lifeboat had to cut away her anchor. The anchor was later recovered by members of North East Essex and Ipswich branches of the British... - View image in PDF
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POOLE.—This Life-boat station has recently been completely renovated, the boathouse and slipway having been altered and improved, and the Life-boat, which was no longer fit for further i service, having been replaced by another and larger...
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LiEUT.-CoL. HENRY WILLIAM MADOC, C.B.E., M.V.O., who died on 7th January at the age of sixty-eight, was for twenty-three years the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Douglas, Isle of Man. It was only in August of last year that...
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