November 24, 1934: an oak tree from Northumberland is planted in Battersea Park, London, in memory of Grace Darling. [The editor would be interested to know if the tree still thrives in 1985.1. - View image in PDF
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Nov. 6TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
It had been reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the life-boat could find nothing. - Rewards, £14 9s. 6d..
JUNE 2ND. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea, one mile E.N.E. of Easington, but the life-boat’s help was not needed.- Permanent paid crew..
Braced For Action: Lt Alan Tate Strapped In and Ready For The Next Wave. - View image in PDF
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ATHERFIELD, BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, AND BROOKE, ISLE or WIGHT.—On the night of Sunday 31st January, the fourmasted s.s. Eider, of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on the reef of rocks...
Hilton London Docklands with dinner £69.50 £8450 Hilton London Islington with dinner £6950 £84.50 Hilton London Kensington with dinner £49.50 £68.50 Hilton London Mews with dinner £5450 £69.50 Hilton...
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Martin and Nigel Lutt raised £.33 for the Leighton branch with their own exhibition of model aircraft and soldiers. photograph by courtesy of the 'Beds, and Bucks. Observer'. - View image in PDF
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5: Channel Track Of Little Turntable (Left) On Which She Can Be Swung Round To Convenient Position For Mounting On Carriage Tractor Moves Round Carriage. - View image in PDF
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THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL LIFEBOAT CONFERENCE, on which a report appears on page 148, was as always an extremely harmonious and friendly affair. Indeed it would be difficult to find a gathering of pleasanter people anywhere in the world. To...
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THE "British Public" has of late mani- fested a considerable degree of dissatisfac- tion at the general state of the Mercantile Marine, a dissatisfaction which is none the less real in fact because it can hardly be said—at least in...
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