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Scapa Flow in War and Peace by W.S. Hewison published by Bellavista Publications at £8.00 ISBN 0-9525350-0-9 Although mention of the name Scapa Flow immediately brings to mind the area's naval connections this 270sq mile patch of...
Category: Articles
Children from the Class of Mrs Harrison at Bodmin County Primary Infants' School Acted Out the Grace Darling Story
Children from the class of Mrs Harrison at Bodmin County Primary Infants' School acted out the Grace Darling story for the rest of the school and, after making a "mile of pennies", they collected over £52 the Grace Darling... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St.Peter Port Lifeboat Crew Formed the Guard of Honour As Her Majesty the Queen Embarked In Her Barge to Rejoin Hmy Britannia at the End of Her Visit to Guernsey O
St Peter Port lifeboat crew formed the guard of honour as Her Majesty The Queen embarked in her barge to rejoin HMY Britannia at the end of her visit to Guernsey on Wednesday June 28. Her Majesty spoke to every crew member, asking about the... - View image in PDF
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Lieut.-Col. Sir John Collie, C.M.G., M.D., J.P.
Lieut.-Col. Sir John Collie, C.M.G., M.D., J.P., the distinguished physician and the authority on malingering, died on 3rd April at the age of seventy-five.
He had been a member of the committee of management since April,...
Category: Obituaries
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Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 8.4 on the evening of the 18th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over a cliff near Portpatrick. At 8.14 the life- boat Jeanie Speirs put out in a slight...
Irb Launches on Service During the Months March, April and May 1971
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aberdovey, Merionethshire Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Amble, Northumberland Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Bangor, Co. Down Barmouth, Merionethshire Barrow, Lancashire Bembridge, Isle of...
Category: Services
The Reconstruction of Tenby Lifeboat House By Ian Haken
DURING A REGULAR inspection at Tenby in 1978 the RNLI's consulting engineers. Lewis and Duvivier. found that since their previous triennial upkeep and maintenance inspection many of the timber piles of the lifeboat house had deteriorated...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
Trapped_men rescued from pier supports D class thrown against pier supports and holed during night service Sometimes the need to save a life over-rides all other considerations...
When Eastbourne lifeboat station heard that...
Category: Services
During the First Benson and Hedges Fair Isle International Yacht Race, Which Was Mentioned In the Y.L.A. Section In the January Edition, the Crew of the Reserve Life-Boat Hilton Briggs from Kirkwa
During the first Benson and Hedges Fair Isle International Yacht Race, which was mentioned in the Y.L.A. section in the January edition, the crew of the reserve life-boat Hilton Briggs from Kirkwall, exercising in the area, towed two of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-boat Collector Miss Myrtle Graham, of Belfast, Receiving her Quota of Flags from Mr. Gerald Murphy (right) and Mr. Gerald Lenaghan, Members of the Crew of the Newcastle (Ireland) Life-Boat, in the Grounds of the City Hall, Belfast
Life-boat collector Miss Myrtle Graham, of Belfast, receiving her quota of flags from Mr. Gerald Murphy (right) and Mr.
Gerald Lenaghan, members of the crew of the Newcastle (Ireland) lifeboat, in the grounds of the City... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs