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Carillion, of Cowes
RACE CASUALTY While the yacht Carillion of Cowes was taking part in the Fastnet race on 5th August, 1971, she struck rocks off the Lizard and was damaged.
At 9.30 p.m. the life-boat Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service JVo. 33)...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1917
'W" indicates War Service.) Time of 1917. Launching.
Jan. 1-2. 6.35 p.m.
„ 9. 11.44a.m.
w „ 9-10.11.30 p.m.
„ 10. 1.30a.m.
„ 10. 10.30...
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Services of the Life-Boats In December, 1951, January and February, 1952. 76 Lives Rescued
DURING December, 1951, life-boats went out on service 35 times and rescued 15 lives.
ENGINE BROKEN DOWN Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 3.7 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a woman had...
Category: Services
The Fundraisers
Celebration challenge London's Lakeside shopping centre was the setting for a unique anniversary fundraising event in August.
The Yamaha/RNLI challenge saw Lakeside staff competing against their retail rivals in a...
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Per Mare, Per Terram
THE above well-known motto of the British "Royal Marines " has been nobly illustrated by the deeds of that dis- tinguished corps in every part of the globe, and wherever, on land or sea, its services have been required, its famous...
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Lifeboat Services (From Page 263)
Lifeboat Services (from page 263) the whaleboat which had drifted further to leeward to within about 100' from the cliffs near the Cote du Nord hotel.
His crew managed to get a grapnel into the whaleboat and they towed...
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News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1939
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on May 23rd. The amount raised was £8,132, an increase of £1,734 on 1938 and the largest sum for over twenty years.
Presentation...
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An Aeroplane (56)
JULY 29TH. - RAMSEY, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN An aeroplane had been reported to Ramsey as having fallen into the sea six miles S.W. of Burrow Head, and the Ramsey life-boat was launched, as the Kirkcudbright life-boat was off service. At Peel...
Books
BOOKs From cargos of coffee and tobacco to the thrills of speedboat testing, from learning the ropes to total disaster - Carol Waterkeyn and Sam Price review four more titles to bring you closer to the sea Unless other ordering details are...
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