The following graphic account of a determined and gallant Lifeboat Service rendered on the occasion of a shipwreck which occurred on the Yorkshire Coast a few years since, is abridged from an interesting work, entitled, " Between the...
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DECEMBER No. 2 Life-boat Area Port St. Mary, Isle of Man - At 1.30 p.m. on 19th December, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary sec- retary that a catamaran was showing distress signals about eight miles south of Chickens Rock...
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TWO 14-year-old Scottish sea cadets who rescued a friend from the choppy waters of Campbeltown Loch are to receive special awards for their actions from the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
The boys, Ian Campbell of...
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Presentation of Vellums signed by the Prince of Wales.
TEN presentations of Centenary Vellums to Stations have taken place during the past summer, making the total of such Vellums presented forty-three. Nine of these...
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A CALAMITY like that of the wreck of the steam-ship London is one of those grievous and tragic events with which, in these stormswept islands, the imagination of the public is only too familiar; yet which, out of the depths of misfortune and...
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SHORELINE IS GOING THROUGH One Of the most exciting periods of its life. At the end of August the new Shoreline 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat will be setting out on her delivery trip to Blyth and I am hoping to join her at Spurn Point for the...
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The trial in progress: on parallel courses about 100 yards apart, Arun 52-02 and Thames 50-001 drive through rough seas at about 17 knots. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Guernsey Evening Press. - View image in PDF
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THE melancholy accident which occurred to two boats of H.M.S. Ariadne, in March of the present year, again revived the questions as to the most suitable life- boats for ships of war, and the best description of apparatus for lowering them...
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(Left) The RNLI flag made by Gnosall branch members flies proudly at The Horns, saluted by Geoff Threadgold, a long-standing Shoreline supporter and now branch honorary secretary.. - View image in PDF
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