voices Hard graft & glamour Her remarkable determination and bravery Have won Tanni Grey-Thompson international awards and fans but the sporting idol has her own heroes and heroines, as she explains to Rory Stamp ‘The weather was...
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Thursday, 29th March, 1855. THOMAS BARING, Esq., M.P., in the Chair.
Bead and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence and the Wreck and Reward...
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Right When you are busy with one task-retrieving a survivor for example - is the worst time to suffer an emergency.
Coxswain Eric Ward (front) and Mechanic Tommy Cocking from St Ives get to grips with an un-cooperative... - View image in PDF
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Capsize WEXFORD GARDA informed the honorary secretary of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station at 0115 on Saturday, December 24, 1977, that four red flares had been sighted off Bannow Bay towards the Saltees. At 0130 maroons were fired by the...
AUGUST 23RD. - PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN At 11.35 A.M. information was received through the police that a British aeroplane was in the sea off Dalby. A moderate westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 12.10 P.M. the motor life-boat...
NOVEMBER 11TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At 2.13 P .M. information was received through the coastguard that two airmen had baled out from their aeroplane two miles S.E. of Orfordness. A moderate W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with...
AUGUST 21ST. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
A German bomber had been shot down and had caught fire, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £5 9s. 6d..
NOVEMBER 2lST. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
A British aeroplane was overdue and flares had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £35 7s..
JUNE 25TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.25 A.M. the coastguard reported that a British bomber was believed to be down several miles to the eastward, and the motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty at this station, was...
Mr. R. C. Tremlett, a well-known bass fisherman in the Portsmouth area, has raised considerable sums of money for the Institution by giving talks, illus- trated by films and slides, on fishing and then making collections. Another film that...
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