Miniature Arun: this model of Humber lifeboat, City of Bradford IV, took its creator, Brian Sumner, a winter of long nights to complete.
The hull is carved from solid spruce and the rest is made from plywood and anything... - View image in PDF
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Well dressing is an old custom in Derbyshire and here is a magnificent example of the art, created at Holymoorside last August.
Usually well dressings have a religious theme but last year Chesterfield and District branch... - View image in PDF
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Caribbean queens St Agnes ladies guild won top prizes with their Cornish Caribbean display in the local village carnival recently - receiving cups for the best charity group float and the best music and dance.
The carnival... - View image in PDF
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Part two of our definitive guide to all operational RNLI lifeboat classes. This issue we bring you the inshore fleet and the Institution's only intermediate class… Brede Introduced In 1982, the Brede, although an Intermediate class...
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MAY MEETING GRIMNESS, ORKNEYS. About 2 in the afternoon of the 30th January, 1940, a ship’s boat, which had got away from the S.S.
Giralda, of Leith, after she had been bombed by German aeroplanes, was seen drifting ashore...
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MARGATE. —At 1 A.M. on the 28th October, during a gale from the E.N.E.
and a very heavy sea, it was reported that a barge was ashore opposite Birchington, and that men could be seen in the rigging.
The...
Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
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