POBTHOUSTOCK, COXSWAIN,.—At midnight on the 13th April, during a strong breeze from the N.E., the weather at the same time being hazy, it was reported that a large steamer had struck on the Manacles Boots. The Mary Ann Storey Life-boat...
LIZARD.—The Life-boat Edmund and Fanny, stationed at Folpear, was launched at midnight on the 10th of March, during a moderate gale from the S.S.E. and a heavy ground swell, and rescued the crewof seventeen men from the barque Lady Dufferin,...
Newhaven, Sussex. At 12.40, early on the morning of the 25th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that a vessel was firing red flares a quarter of a mile off Birling Gap. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at...
Dover, Kent. At 7.10 on the morn- ing of the 25th of September, 1958, the coastguard at Sandgate informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Grey Lady needed help four miles south of Folkestone. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at...
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 28th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized in Pevensey Bay. At 3.6 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched in a rough sea, with a...
‘Dance your cares away’ with these Fraggle Rock character keyrings, available from Halifax and Bank of Scotland (HBOS) branches during november. Photo: Laura Wiltshire. - View image in PDF
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Margate, Kent. — At 1.58 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel appeared to be drifting towards the Longsands about ten miles north of Margate. Two minutes later the life-boat North Foreland,...
Cdr Brian Miles, the RNLI's director, is pictured collecting a cheque for £19,443, the result of a competition sponsored by Frizzell Insurance and Financial Services and which appeared in several editions of the Civil Service... - View image in PDF
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Presentation of token cheque for £40,000, at end of fiveyear international sponsored swim project: (I to r) Harold Hassall, secretary ASA: Paul Lucas, special projects manager, Cadburys, sponsors, ASA club championships; Stephen Poulter... - View image in PDF
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