Eastbourne, Sussex - At 3.53 p.m.
on 3ist October, 1966, news was received that one of the local angling club's rowing boats was missing. She had last been seen drifting west, off Beachy Head, with two men on board. The...
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—On the morning of the 13th Dec., 1887, a gale, which had been blowing strongly from the S.E., suddenly shifted to the S.W., and two schooners, the Clyde and the Harbinger, of Belfast, coal laden, which were riding at...
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neWs the latest launches, live! the rescue stories you read in the Lifeboat are but a handful of the thousands of RnLi lifeboat launches undertaken every year. now, the RnLi desktop pager allows computer users to keep up to date with every...
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One of the prizes of a grand draw organised by Bridgnorth branch was this delightful decanter entitled May Day being shown by its designer and donor, John Smith, to Councillor Michael Ridley, Mayor of Bridgnorth. The Mayor drew the winning... - View image in PDF
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Less food, more money It has become a tradition that, at the end of the annual conference of the marketing and sales division of Ciba- Geigy UK, delegates are served a ploughman's lunch and the difference in price between that and the...
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YOUR CHILDREN PROBABLY WON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THIS.
HAVE YOU EVER tried to speak to your family about when you're gone? If they don't want to listen, it's not because they don't care. They simply...
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At 1.30 A.M. on the 10th February, during a moderate S.S.W. gale the Coastguard reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat John Wesley, that rockets had been observed in Barry Roads.
The Life-boat was launched and found the...
A Norwegian Life-Saving Ketch. - View image in PDF
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