Tyne rescues crews of two yachts in galeThe Director of the RNLI has written to thank the crew of the Ramsgate lifeboatfor a service 'carried out very professionally' after the station's Tyne had rescued the crews of two yachts...
WHETHER THEY DROP on to the doormat with a welcome letter, or arrive on the office desk with the next urgent problem, special issues of stamps make a cheerful start to any day.
The sea is a good and popular subject and in...
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JANUARY Launches 32. Lives rescued 76.
JANUARY 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 9.10 P.M. the naval officer in charge telephoned that R.A.F. high-speed launch No. 124 was somewhere off...
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Each year the 420 pupils of Knowle Church of England Junior School organise a charity Lent Project, and this year they raised £783 for the RNLl. First year pupils ran a bring and buy stall; the second year a sponsored spell; the third... - View image in PDF
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JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 59 times and rescued 34 lives.
DOCTOR TAKEN TO LIGHTVESSEL Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 1st January, 1962, the harbour master informed the...
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On Sunday, June 5, Mr and Mrs Jack Bunn were hosts at the Maybush Inn, Newbridge-on-Thames, for the Maybush Jubilee Festival and Regatta, organised with Witney branch. Sheep dog handling, country dancing, tug-of-war and an evening of... - View image in PDF
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Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—8th August, 1939. A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers' Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea, seven or...
The Duke of Kent's first visit on Orkney on May 10 was to Longhope where he laid a wreath at the memorial to the eight lifeboatmen who lost their lives in the disaster of 1969. The Memorial was unveiled by HM The Queen Mother in... - View image in PDF
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These dramatic photographs capture an incident on Friday 13 January 1989 when the fishing vessel Boy Andrew ran into a narrow gulley at Trebister Ness on Westray in the Shetlands. Lerwick's Arun Soldian took the crew off by Y boat and...
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—The s.s. Loch Lomond, of Dundee, whilst bound from the Tyne to Marseilles with a cargo of 3,600 tons of coal, stranded on the North Holm Sand on the 8th November.
A strong westerly breeze was blowing at...
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