Shortly before 10 o'clock in the evening of 18th April last, just as the s.s. Clanwood, of Sunderland, was leaving Hartlepool for Ghent, with a cargo of coal, a gas explosion occurred on board.
The weather was fine with...
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By DENIS BUTLER (aged 14J), of Stamshaw Boys' School, Stamshaw, Portsmouth.
Why I admire the Life-boatman.
WHEN we consider the higher qualities with which men are endowed, we find that we admire...
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Sail Safari -- it's a lifeboat knockout! Using the 'It's a Knockout' theme, which has recently re-emerged into the limelight, the RNLI staged Sail Safari, an 'around the world boat race' in Battersea Park on 25...
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ANY person who has travelled on our seacoasts, and has been in the habit of conversing with the fishermen and other seamen at the various ports, fishing-towns, and wateringplaces, on the subject of their rendering assistance to shipwrecked...
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TROPHIES RACE SETS — MAINSAILS — DINGHYS — CUPS.
W. & E. Astin, 7 Westerley Lane, Shelley, Huddersfield.
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FUND RAISING FUNDRAISERS! ! ! FREE-Colour Catalogue of...
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s o m e r e c e n t p u b l i c a t i o n s r e v i e w e d SHIPWRECK! by Ian Dear Published by Batsford at £17.95 ISBN 0713459530 Ian Dear has collected an interesting, if chilling, collection of photographs to illustrate his theme of...
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Seafarers all Kindly accept this 'widow's mite' in aid of your good service. I lost two brothers at sea and three uncles and my great grandfather served under Lord Nelson as a commander.
1 admire the bravery of...
Category: Correspondence
Relief - D class Pride ofNuneaton and Bedworth The Borough ofNuneaton and Bedworth is over 90 miles from the sea, but the May or, Councillor Bob Copland, decided to make the funding of two D class lifeboats the aim of his Civic Appeal. Aided...
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Second Coxswain Stephen Whittle and Assistant Mechanic John Power of Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, share the Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a lifeboat crew in 1964. The award is an annual one made under the...
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St Ives Lions Club has chosen as its special project for 1977 the funding of a replacement ILB for the lifeboat station; club members with lifeboatmen and branch officials are already making slipway collections, teddy bears are being raffled... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs