JANUARY 26TH - 30TH and FEBRUARY 5TH.
- FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
During these days the Fraserburgh life-boat performed a number of unusual services because of a very severe snow storm, which continued...
The night was dark and stormy, The waves were rough and high ; A gallant ship was tossing,— Her crew were like to die.
But see! they've launched the life-boat; 'Tis manned by Britons brave, Who risk their life for...
Category: Poetry
Part of a procession which included Noah's Ark and Jonah's Whale.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ship Tavern's '101 Dalmatians' float wins first place in the fancy dress float competition on Anstruther lifeboat station's 19th annual gala.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Holyhead, Anglesey-At 7.16 p.m.
on 26th January, 1970, red flares were reported about five miles south west of the South Stack lighthouse.
The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched in a...
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THE ' Civil Service Life-boat Fund held its sixty-eighth annual meeting at the Home Office on 15th May. The Right Hon. Lord Southborough, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.S.I., the chairman and honorary treasurer of the fund and a...
Category: Articles
... and for Brandy The crew of Swanage lifeboat were involved in a similar doggy episode shortly after Walmer's rescue, fortunately with the same happy result.
Brandy, a two-year-old collie on holiday in the area with...
MAJOR A. J. DAWSON, M.B.E., who died at his home in Hastings on the 4th of February last, at the age of seventy-nine, was a most widely travelled man and the author of a great variety of books. He served in the war of 1914 to 1918 although...
Category: Obituaries
CARMARTHEN BAY.—A private yacht, the Berwick, of Ferryside, with five persons on board, left Ferryside at 8 A.M.
on the 24th January, and proceeded down the river on a shooting excursion, intending to return with the tide....