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The Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
" Thousands of women, in every part, of the United Kingdom, rich or poor, high and, low, have shown that they are moved by the same spirit of mercy and helpfulness as actuated Grace Darling. In their own way, they have rendered...
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The Life-Boat
LOUD beat the treacherous breakers on the shore; The boiling waves like mountains rise on high, Seeming to vent their wild, tumultuous roar To the dark pall that erstwhile was the sky.
The billows,...
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Nimrod
The barqueNimrod, of Liverpool, was seen to be burning flares on the Holm Sand at 7.30 P.M. on the 18th November, during a gale of wind from the S. and a high sea. The No. 1 Life-boat Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, was launched, proceeded to...
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North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 1.10 in the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1949, a wireless message picked up by the Fifeness coastguard and sent to the Seahouses coastguard said that a workman engaged on the reconstruction of the...
Combesco
Padstow, Cornwall. At 12.8 p.m. on 26th February, 1966, the Trevose Head coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Belgian trawler Combesco of Ostend was in a dangerous position under Skepper Point. The Land's End Radio had...
The S.S. Fal
On the 2nd October signal guns were fired by the Gull light-vessel, while a moderate gale was blowing from W.S.W.
with a very heavy sea. The Life-boat was launched at about 5.40 A.M. and found the s.s. Fal, of Falmouth,...
Sparkling Wave, of Sunderland
On the 8th March, the barque Sparkling Wave, of Sunderland, was stranded, and afterwards became a total wreck, on the South Scroby Sand. It was blowing a heavy gale of wind at the time.
The Birmingham No. 2 life-boat went...
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Dec. 18.—The schooner Ayenoria, of Bideford, and the schooner Alexandre, of Havre* were wrecked during a gale of wind near Tenby. Lieut. JESSE, R.N., chief officer of the Coastguard Station, and a crew of 11 men, put off in the Tenby...
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An Impressive Lineup at Skegness
An Impressive Lineup At Skegness. - View image in PDF
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of life from Shipwreck.
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