When Cdr Bruce Cairns, chief of operations, visited Flint in the spring he had a special word of praise for the very high standard that has been achieved by this ILB station. Cdr Cairns (I.
centre) with John Latham,... - View image in PDF
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Thursday, 30th April, 1925.
Sir GODFREY BARING, St., in the Chair.
Reported the resignation from the Committee of Management of Engineer Vice- Admiral Sir GEORGE G. GOODWIN,...
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The Beach Rescue tna scheme showed off its first ever beach lifeguards at two photocells on Friday 25 May.
Lifeguards were put through their paces at two locations - Fistral beach at Newquay in Cornwall and Sandbanks beach...
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ON the morning of the 6th December, 1875, occurred one of those sad disasters which ever and anon remind us of the dangerous character of our shores, the wreck of an emigrant ship. But a few months since the German passenger steamer Schiller...
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Search success AT 1820 ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1987, Tyne Tees Coastguards were alerted by the mother of one of two men aboard the Hartlepool-based fishing boat Sea Fox that the vessel was six hours overdue at the east coast...
Dover, Kent.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 1st of July, 1956, the Eastern Arm signal station reported that a small sailing yacht was in difficulties close inshore to South Foreland. At 6.25 the life-boat Southern Africa put out in a rough...
Family rescued Nearly three months later, on the evening of Friday April 27, 1984, the station's own 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, Ralph and Joy Swann, back on station, was called out to the aid of a 30ft motor cruiser, Kalavala. She had...
'A one-eyed, cantankerous and troublesome fellow'1: thus, leaning back in his chair, pipe in hand and smiling happily, does John Chapman describe himself.
But the smile belies the words, for it is the smile of a man...
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