THE WRECKERS recently returned to the popular Devonshire holiday resort of Ilfracombe, but these particular plunderers were strictly landlubbers who had managed to smuggle their way into timbers within the local life-boat...
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SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 6th January two members of the Life- boat's crew were out fishing in one of the small boats belonging to Skegness, when a north-westerly gale sprang up, and shortly after three o'clock in the after-...
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After naming the Torbay boat, the Duke of Kent, accompanied by the Duchess, went up on her flying bridge for a trip to sea.. - View image in PDF
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THE firm of J, Samuel White & Co., Ltd., of Cowes, has been building ships in the Isle of Wight for more than two and a half centuries. During the greater part of that time the firm has been closely associated with the Life- boat...
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Mine Host at Amble, When Amble's 44ft Waveney class Margaret Graham launched on 5 December 1989 to act as a safety boat for some RN divers about to explode a war-time mine she also found herself acting as a different kind of mothership -...
Twin pedal power For Northfleet Carnival I built a lifeboat round my bicycle and here is a photograph of 'yours truly' at the helm (or should I say handlebars?) while pedalling along in the carnival on July 1. We had a collection...
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...and where it all came from - the 16,000sq ft Fulfilment Centre in Thirsk.. - View image in PDF
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SCARBOROUGH.—The Institution has sent a new 37 feet, twelve oared Life-boat •with transporting carriage to this well- known port and watering place, the cost having been provided by HERBERT A. FOSTER, Esq., of Queensbury Works, Bradford, and...
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Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 4.35 on the afternoon of the 31st of May, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say a motor fishing vessel was on the rocks at Divas Head. The life-saving ap- paratus team and a helicopter had been summoned, and at...
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—On the morn- ing of the 23rd December, 1886, signals of distress were observed about a mile distant from Winterton, during a strong N. gale aad a very heavy sea, shown by two vessels which had been in collision. The Win-...
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