CLOVELLY, DEVON.—During a thick fog, a strong W.S.W. breeze, and a rough sea on the night of the 16th February, the s.s. AMI, of Bilbao, stranded about two and a half miles to the westward of Clovelly and the crew took to the ship's...
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Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 3Gth of December, 1955, information was received from the crews of fishing boats coming in from sea that the wind was freshening and the weather worsening. There were doubts about the safety...
Lester Piggot on No 5 Go Total entering the winners enclosure after the Pains- Wessex Stakes, followed by No 1 Gypsy Dancer (Pat Eddery) who was third home in this fourth race.. - View image in PDF
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First Cuffley Scout troop raised money by building a paper 'mountain1—15 tons of waste paper and card. - View image in PDF
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Grace Darling was a woman of courage and determination, and it was those same characteristics – now woven into the fabric of the RNLI – that encouraged Lena Howells to become the first female member of Angle Lifeboat Station in 2007, at the...
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MR. L. W. B. TEELING, M.P. for Brighton, asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the coming closing down of the Royal Naval Air Station at Ford, and of the Royal Air Force Station, Tangmere, ceasing to be operational, he would discuss...
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Blue Peter 7 at Littlehampton Littlehampton's new Blue Peterfunded lifeboat Blue Peter 1 has been named and welcomed into the RNLI fleet at a special ceremony of dedication in October. This was a double celebration, as the new...
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If there was ever any doubt that the RNLI's technical team designs its lifeboats so that they are sturdy enough to face the worst possible conditions, then the events of Sunday. 9 September were surely proof enough.
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ON th« invitation of the Mayor of Calais a party representing the Life-boat Stations on the Kentish coast crossed to Calais on Sunday, 14th August, in the Margate Motor Life-boat Lord Southborough, to be present at the unveiling, on the...
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