WHETHER the Shetland Islands were the Ultima Thule of the Romans or whether that term was really applied to Iceland, as many believe, is immaterial to most people living in the " adjacent islands" of Great Britain and Ireland; it...
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ON APRIL 10, 1983, Salcombe's 47ft Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange, searching for missing divers at the southern end of Start Bay, was hit by mountainous seas in a force 11 storm.
The first of two tremendous seas, a...
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THE subject set for the eighth Lifeboat Essay Competition in Elementary Schools was " Describe the kind of man that a good Life-boatman should be." The number of schools taking part was 1919, an increase on last year of 427. The...
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There’s something about Dartmouth, Devon, that keeps people coming back. Many are content to walk the narrow streets down to the picturesque shore of the River Dart, still guarded by the 15th-century castle that gazes out to sea. Others like...
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IN our Life-boat Saturday Fund article published in the February number last year, we ventured to prophesy that better results would be obtained by the Life- boat Saturday workers in 1901 than in the preceding year, and we are only too...
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Comnjander M. A. Regan, O.B.E., J.P.
By the sudden death at the age of sixty-three, of Commander M. A. Regan, O.B.E., J.P., the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at Hull, the Institution has lost one of its most...
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Montrose, Angus, and Anstruther, Fifeshlre.—On the afternoon of the 9th of February, 1953, a wireless message reached the Montrose life-boat station from the fishing boat Angus Rose, which had a crew of two, that she had lost her rudder, but...
EVERYBODY is complaining that trade and business are bad, and that as a result any effort to raise money for charitable purposes requires an operation similar to that time-honoured one of extracting "blood from a stone" ! It is sad...
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