AMONGST the numerous valuable periodical publications, magazines, and reviews, with which the literature of this country abounds, is it not strange that, until but recently, there should have been none exclusively representing and devoted to...
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Yacht towed in THE HIGH WINDS OF Sunday August 11, 1985, which brought about a bronze medal service at St Peter Port, Guernsey and vellum services at Weymouth and Ramsgate (already reported in earlier issues), and which involved 39 stations...
LITTLE DID I THINK some 20 years ago when I started in general practice that I should be in active service for more than a decade as a lifeboat doctor or HMA (honorary medical adviser), as we are called. Years later I asked the now retired...
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OC T O B E R 3 1 S T . - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. A steamer had been in distress off the coast of Tiree, but she was taken in tow by a naval vessel. - Rewards, £20 9s..
ON the 20th of April last a grievous disaster occurred on the Goodwin Sands, which resulted in the loss of a Norwegian brig, The Auguste Herman Francke, with six hands out of a crew of seven all told.
All day on the 20th a...
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It seems small.
Until you turn it on.
The Rose® Acoustic Wave® music system. The biggest thing about it is the sound.
It measures just 10.5"H x 18"Wx 6.5"D and...
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On the closing of the Blackrock life-boat station the following awards were made : DANIEL SMITH, 1 year coxswain and 10J years second coxswain, a coxswain's certifi- cate of service, and a pension.
JAMES STANLEY, 1 year...
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Barrow, Lancashire - At 3 p.m. on 30th July, 1967, it was learnt that the converted life-boat Gamecock was overdue.
The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at 3.25 in a fresh south westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The...
THERE he stands, somewhat apart from the rest, his eyes straining in the haze to watch her disappearing form. The Life-boat has been launched, and— amazing, incredible, as it yet seems to his mind—launched without him 1 For half a century he...
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The final hull form of the Mersey, seen during the self-righting trials of ON 1125, a pre-production prototype. (Photo Downland Studios). - View image in PDF
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