A team of 24 students from the City and Guild's College Union of Imperial College, London, set out on July 10 to try to set a record for pedalling non stop 3,675 miles round the coast of Britain; they arrived back in London within a few... - View image in PDF
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Two of a set of Cavan Crystal Gaelic coffee (or wine) glasses. Each glass carries a different RNLI decoration. Price £3.50 from RNLI Dublin Office (10 Merrion Square), or from our shop at Bell Parade, Glebe Way, West Wickham, Kent... - View image in PDF
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(Above) Two of a set of six Gaelic coffee glasses (or wine glasses), made by Cavan Crystal Ltd. Each glass carries a different decoration: the RNLI house flag, crest, an ILB, 44' Waveney lifeboat and two... - View image in PDF
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KlNGSDOWNE AND NORTH DEAL. On 16th August the Life-boat Charles Hargrave, stationed at Kingsdowne, and the Mary Somerville, of North Deal, were launched early in the morning, signal guns having been fired by the East Goodwin and Gull Light...
In Trifle, a 40' trimaran built at Wadesbridge in 1966, General Farrant found a cruising boat which would plane like a dinghy. In her he held the record for the offshore Crystal Trophy race from 1968-1975—and completed a Round the Island... - View image in PDF
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COAstAL LIfe Not in my backyard? Windfarms are springing up all around the British Isles, but most are offshore, away from the controversy blowing in the countryside. Bethany Hope investigates their impact Devotees of the modern equivalent...
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THE ROYAL EVENT OF 1993 The 40th anniversary of H.M. Queen Elizabeth IPs Coronation The Coronation D rv Plate Limited Edition 5000 The 2nd of June 1953 will always be remembered as the day H.M. Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster...
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Workington, Cumberland - At 9.19 p.m. on nth September, 1966, red flares were sighted off Parton. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX left her moorings at 9.30 in a strong south westerly wind and a moderate sea. It was six minutes...
The 17m fishing vessel Crystal Sea was returning to harbour with a catch at 3am on 22 November when she hit rocks north of Howth Head.
As she sank, her crew of four jumped onto the rocks, where they activated their...
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ALNMOUTH.—The John Atkinson Lifeboat rescued, on the 24th December, 3 of the crew of the brig Unition, of Guernsey, which vessel had stranded on the Boulmer Rocks. Of the remainder of the shipwrecked men, 1 was lost, and the others, 4 in...