For the past three years Ruth Cawsey (r) and Carolyn Doorbar have raised funds for Weston-super-Mare branch at Christmas time by playing carols in clubs and pubs and in the local shopping area. In the first year they raised £700: in the... - View image in PDF
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IN a dock of the Exhibition grounds at the Fisheries Exhibition at Bergen—it is held in the Nygaard Park, which runs down to a river—there are four Life- boats. They are not to be known for Life-boats at a glance, being shaped and rigged in...
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Two medical calls BELFAST COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Portrush lifeboat station at 1505 on Sunday November 15, 1981, that a seaman was critically ill aboard the fishing trawler Junella, nine miles north east of Portrush; he...
The business of the morning over, Paul Daniels, with some of the Sea Scouts and Cub Sea Scouts who had witnessed the KNLI's ninth national lottery, took a look round the headquarters museum. One undoubted attraction was the working model... - View image in PDF
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Shoreline's youngest member, eight-weekoldHelen Trotter, being 'signedon' by Lynn Powell, a member of Shoreline staff. The photograph was taken by Helen's father, David Trotter.. - View image in PDF
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FROM THE BOAT SHOW • Very encouraging it was, at a Boat Show just managing to weather a fuel crisis, to find on display a means of generating power relying on neither oil nor coal. Lucas/C.A.V. Marine were showing a solar battery charger for...
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WHEN the Institution designed two new types of motor life-boat (as described in previous issues of The Life- boat) sufficiently light to be launched off a carriage or the open beach it became possible to use motor power at a large number of...
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The TV presenter and author talks Cornwall, creativity and crabbing
What inspired someone who’s spent a lot of their life around London to write about a tiny Cornish fishing village? I’ve loved Cornwall, especially Looe,...
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THE life-boat station at Walton-on-the- Naze and Frinton, Essex, celebrated its jubilee with a dinner on 17th November. Fifty years before, almost to a day, on 18th November, 1884, the inaugural ceremony was held of the first* Walton...
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Nineteen RNLI lifeboats played their part in the historic Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. In 1990 some of those lifeboats, now long retired from active service, returned to...
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