Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 6.6 p.m. on I4th January, 1967, a vessel lying very close to the shore at Murkle was seen to have fired distress flares and rockets.
The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service...
No 40, Nelson Road, Wimbledon, has become a mecca for model railway enthusiasts from all over England when Walter Cox opens his garden to the public for one day each summer to show off his OO gauge model railway in aid of the RNLI. The Mayor... - View image in PDF
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The Angmering, West Sussex, branch held its annual Garden Fete in June, in the grounds of Lord and Lady Delfont's Angmering House. Lady Delfont took over as president of the branch in September The amount of money raised has increased... - View image in PDF
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Monkey business City of Derby branch is rather short of collectors, so was glad to welcome this new recruit at Grangecroft Garden Centre - where he helped to raise £360.
Any supporters who can help in the Derby area,...
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—• During the afternoon of the 19th September, 1938, the local motor fishing boat Patriot went to the Blackwater Light-vessel to fetch a man ashore.
As, when she was due to return, a strong...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford - At 8 p.m. on i3th August, 1967, thesecond coxswain was informed that a flare had been seen inside Tusker rock.
The motor vessel Duke of Rothsay and St. David's coastguard also reported...
OCTOBER 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 11.20 in the morning the Carne coast life-saving service telephoned that a schooner was ashore at Churchtown, Carnsore Point. The weather was calm, but there was a dense fog. The motor...
JUNE 7TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. A request was received from the principal light-keeper at Tuskar Rock for the life-boat to bring ashore a sick man from the light-house. A very strong southwest gale was blowing, with a very rough...
Campbeltown, Argyllshire - At 10.26 p.m. on 12th January, 1968, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that he had intercepted a radio message from the motor fishing vessel Golden Oriole reporting that she was in difficulties...
You would have to have exceptional hearing to claim that New Maiden in South London was within the sound of Bow Bells, but this did not deter Alice Hodgkin (r), catering manager of Spillers Foods, New Maiden from organising a Cockney evening... - View image in PDF
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