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THE night was dark, the tempest roared, The waves ran mountains high: It seemed to every hand on board As if the sea and sky In one commingled mass was blent And welded by the gale, Save where the quiv'ring light'niag rent The...

Since 1941 the Ladies' Unity Club, of Boston Manor, Baling, has presented the line-throwing pistol, searchlight and compass for the Aldeburgh No. 2 lifeboat, and the line-throwing pijtols for the life-boats at Sunderland and Newquay,...

New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 13th of July, 1958, the New Quay coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message from the Aberystwyth coastguard that the lobster fishing boat Ynys Lochtyn, with a crew of two,...

The Royal National Life-boat Institution at 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I, is continuing to benefit from the sale of Tales told by a Squirrel—a kindly little book for animal lovers which was written by the late Mrs. M....

THE Institution has recently received two gifts from its own Crews out of money which had been received for the salvage of vessels—£3 from the Clacton Crew, which on 2nd January last saved the barge Decima with two men on board, and...

FOLLOWING on the Conferences of Hcnorary Secretaries already held at Ijlargate in the South-East of England, at Scarborough and Manchester in the North of England, and in London, a Conference of Honorary Secretaries and workers in South...

On the 17th May, 1928, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat saved the schooner Isabella, of Barrow, which was in distress in a moderate northerly gale, and rescued her crew of four men. Out of the salvage money received, the Life-boat Crew have made...