Vancouver’s icy slopes are a long way from the Isle of Man but a world-class snowboarder won’t forget home when she competes at the Winter Olympics
Zoe Gillings is full of anticipation as she waits for the start gate to...
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On the evening of the llth July the ketch Darnet, of Maldon, was anchored between the Knocksand Bank and the Main when she parted from her anchor and drifted on to the sand. Later she floated off the sand, but went on to the Main near...
Awards To Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's...
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The experimental prototype of a new design of 38ft lifeboat which is fast, yet capable of launching from a carriage, is now under construction and will begin trials in the spring. Edward Wake-Walker examines her development.THE RNLI HAS A...
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DEC. 14TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO.
WATERFORD. The motor ship Cairngorm, of Glasgow, shortly after taking a pilot aboard, went aground on the west side of Waterford Harbour, one and a half miles from Dunmore East. Distress...
The weather of last year was, in some respects, like a well-constructed story.
Beginning in a tame and uneventful fashion, the interest gradually increased as time wore on, until at the close of the period we were...
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Lee shore FOLLOWING THE SIGHTING of a red flare in Dovercourt Bay by the BR sea freight liner. Thames Coastguard telephonedthe honorary secretary of Walton and Frinton lifeboat station and the deputy launching authority of Harwich lifeboat...
IN consequence of more than one of the lifeboats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION having upset and broken adrift when in tow, through being to«red without any one on board to steer them, the following Instructions have been...
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Two fishermen lost LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD received a 999 call at 2159 on August 19, 1979, from Braystones reporting that twomen who had gone fishing in an inflatable dinghy had not returned. It was thought that they had gone south to the...
Inaugural Ceremony by the Prince of Wales, K.G.
THE PRINCE or WALES, as President of the Institution, on 10th July named the new Dover Motor Life-boat Sir William Hillary, after the founder of the Institu- tion.
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