Hidden among a band of ace fund raisers are Shoreham lifeboat's motor mechanic. Jack Silverson, and Ian Wallington, RO(SE). The children, class 1 (aged 10 and II) of Shoreham Beach First School, have just handed over a cheque for... - View image in PDF
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RAMSGATE.—At 12.45 A.M. on the 27th January, during a fresh N. breeze, the Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the steamtug Vulcan, left the harbour in response to signal guns which had been fired by the light-vessels. On Hearing the North Sand...
" How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." Merchant of Vawx, IF the faint twinkling of a candle's light was calculated to awaken so beautiful an idea in the mind of our great...
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• Decca Radar Ltd., Decca House, Albert Embankment, London, S.E. 1, have been privileged to provide radar for the R.N.L.I, for eight years.
The Decca 202 series and Kelvin Hughes Type 17 were the first sets to meet all the...
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Two taken off BEAUMARIS ILB STATION deputy launching authority was informed by Penmon Coastguard at 1646 on Saturday, October 23, 1976, that sailing dinghies had capsized in the vicinity of Gallows Point and Garth Point, Menai Strait; the...
The Sumner Lifeboat Institution, New Zealand, operates an ex-RNLI 10.9m Liverpool class lifeboat, Rescue III, and a fast jet inshore boat. Aid II. When a call-out comes, both lifeboats, a control tower and a mobile base in a Landrover are... - View image in PDF
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Roll out the barrel! That is exactly what eight customers of the Hare and Hounds pub at Dore, near Sheffield did.
The eight, working in pairs, pushed a 36-gallon beer barrel filled with water from the pub to Whitby lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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Expenditure.
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2,965 13 - 37,538 11 3 19,475 17 5 23,603 18 4 13,781 11 9 52,420 6 8 266,261 18 4 Life-boats :— 66,625 18 10 710 4 _' 31,074 8...
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Around and about the RNLI Good Times in the London marathon Tony Williamson, the chairman of Littlehampton Branch is a keen marathon runner, and has already raised £1,300 for the Shoreham Lifeboat appeal when he competed in the New York...
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ON the morning of 17th February last a number of fishing boats from Sheringham, on the coast of Norfolk, went out after whelks. Before they returned a heavy sea had got up, and the boats were in danger. A message was sent for the Motor...