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RESCUEE RETURNS WITH THANKS
James Probert says he ‘simply would not be here’ if not for the quick and professional response of his rescuers. The 58-year-old father of four collapsed in a car park...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1885
Jan. 1.—Voted 5?. to the master and crew of the steam-tug Telephone, of Falmouth, for saving five fishing-luggers, some of their nets, and their crews, numbering twenty men, which were in much danger off Exmouth during a heavy gale from the...
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Him and the Crew and Sending a Donation to the Station He Said '/ Have Been Sailing Various Boats at Sea for 21 Years and Suppose That I Have Always Had It at the Bac
him and the crew and sending a donation to the station. He said, '/ have been sailing various boats at sea for 21 years and suppose that I have always had it at the back of my mind that the lifeboat service would come to my assistance in... - View image in PDF
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The Advent of the Motor-Boat
THIS year has been one of exceptional interest with regard to the development of Marine Motors, and it will be satis- factory to the supporters of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to know that the subject of placing motors in...
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An Aeroplane (1)
CRASHED AEROPLANE Poole and Bournemouth, Dorset.—At 11.20 in the morning of the 17th of September, 1947, the Swanage coast- guard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea off Bournemouth, and the motor life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright...
An Outboard Gemini Craft
St. Ives, Cornwall - At 8.17 p.m. on I3th May, 1967, it was reported that an outboard Gemini craft had left Porthmeor Cove at 2.30 and had not been sighted since. The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched at 8.50 in a...
An Aeroplane (18)
SEPT. 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT, AND SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown two hours and twenty...
An Aeroplane (5)
FEBRUARY 9TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 3.50 P . M . the coastguard reported a British aeroplane in difficulties, and a few minutes later the news came that the aeroplane was down in the sea. Her position was given at...
An Aeroplane (14)
MAY 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
At 10.10 in the morning the police reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea opposite Cleveleys Hydro. There was a variable north-east wind and the sea calm.
At...
An Aeroplane (79)
OCTOBER 21ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 9.51 in the evening the coastguard reported an aeroplane down in Yarmouth Roads to the east of Nelson’s Column. The aeroplane was a bomber which, by mistake, had been shot down by our...