How well do you know your onions? During Hyde branch's Christmas fair held at the town hall one of the attractions was to 'guess the weight of the onions'. Home-made cakes and preserves, crafts, plants, good-as-new items and RNLI... - View image in PDF
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Launches 70 Lives rescued 107
AUGUST 3RD. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. In the afternoon the motor lifeboat Sir Heath Harrison had just returned from an exercise when a telephone message was received from a private...
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Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 6 P.M. on the 19th August the Sheringham motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched on exercise. Seeing an unusual object about a mile and a half off West Runton, she closed with it and found it to be a small...
Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Launches 110. Lives rescued 102.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow_On the night of the 20th November,...
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Sheringham, Norfolk - At 8.25 a.m.
on :8th April, 1967, it was noted that the Sheringham crab boats were at sea and conditions were deteriorating rapidly.
The life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows...
Coxswain John Petit of St Peter Port receives from HRH The Duke of Kent a third bar to his bronze medal; it was for the service to the Greek freighter Cantonad in last January's storms. John Petit has also been awarded the silver medal,... - View image in PDF
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FROM THE 1st JANUARY TO THE 31st DECEMBER, 1860.
Jan. 5, 1860.—Voted the thanks of the Institution, inscribed on vellum, and II. to SAMUEL DUNN, in acknowledgment of his intrepid and prompt services in rescuing, at...
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Last year 10 pupils, average age 10 years, from Danley Middle School, Halfway, Sheerness, arranged a sponsored marathon badminton match when they played non-stop for six hours and raised £10 for the R.N.L.I. Here, one of the boys who... - View image in PDF
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CHESHIRE.
Century Life-boat Days were held at Crewe, Hollingworth, Nantwich, Sand- bach and Whaley Bridge.
Poynton had a House-to-House Col- lection.
Congleton had a Garden...
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