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Around our iron-bound coasts wild waters rave, High revel holds the Storm King night and day; All honour, then, to those who dare to brave The rush and fury of his deadly sway! When seething billows toss their spumy crests, Lashed into...
Category: Poetry
Admiral Van Tromp
Fishing vessel aground A DISTRESS CALL asking for lifeboat assistance from the fishing vessel Admiral Van Tromp was passed to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station by Whitby Coastguard at 0302 on Thursday, September 30, 1976; the...
Pillaging Will Be Delayed Slightly
It is not often that a lifeboat tows a Viking longship, but it does happen! Moelfre's Tyne class lifeboat Robert and Violet is pictured doing just this on 15 July 1990 after receiving a call from the replica Longship Dyflin, based in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Seamus Mason at the helm of Coventry and Warwickshire in April 2006, a few days before his retirement Photo: Nick Leach
Seamus Mason at the helm of Coventry and Warwickshire in April 2006, a few days before his retirement Photo: Nick Leach. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Danish Trawler Robert Schou
Wick, Caithness-shire - At 3.22 a.m.
on igth August, 1966, the Danish trawler Robert Schou was reported aground at Proudfoot. There was a light south south westerly breeze with a slight sea. The lifeboat Thomas McCunn, on...
Hastings' 37Ft Oakley
Hastings' 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Fairlight, with Coxswain Frederick White at the helm, tows the Dutch yacht Octopus towards Rye Harbour during a force 6 south-south-easterly gale and in rough seas on July 19, 1987. Rye Harbour's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Nova Espero
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly - At 7.20 p.m. on 22nd July, 1967, it was learnt that a ketch was in difficulties trying to roundthe Garrison from St. Mary's sound. The life-boat Thomas McCunn, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Training for Disaster
ILINER EXPLODES IN WORKINGTON HARBOUR - MANY FEARED DEAD, 100 INJURED 'Sirens blasted across Workington as black clouds of smoke rose above the town. Roads were blocked as ambulances and fire engines hurtled towards the docks, blue...
Category: Articles
Forty-Nine Boys In Peril
The Pamir and the Margate life-boat (See page 334). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
April
Launches 41 Lives rescued 97 APRIL 1ST. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
About six o’clock in the morning the officerof the watch of H.M.S. Forte III telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Pendennis Castle Point. The tide was low,...
Category: Services