Six-hour service in horrific conditions to fishermen wrecked on rocks When the fishing vessel Sincerity went aground in stormy conditions off Ardlamont Point, the Campbeltown lifeboat had to travel 30 miles in total darkness just to reach...
Where would the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION be without its Branches, of which there are nearly 400 spread over England, Scotland and Ireland! The Committee of Management of the Institution, as stated by them in their annual reports...
Category: Branches
A dozen of hearts! and a dozen of hands ! I And the courage of death!—'tis a Yorkshire boast; It was all they asked one November noon When a hurricane blew on the Whitby coast.
For a cry came over the wailing sands, And...
Category: Poetry
THEBE'S a port beyond the sky-line, Though its lights I cannot see, But my Pilot's in the offing, And He's watching there for me.
Though my bark be old and batter'd, And is wanting many a spar, Yet He'll...
Category: Songs
SOUTHEND, ESSEX.—During a strong gale of wind from the S.W., and a heavy sea, at 11.30 A.M. on the 24th October the brig August, of Griefswold, Prussia, signalled for assistance, having lost her masts and anchors. The Boys of England...
SHERINGHAM.—The Life-boat William Bennett was launched at 3 P.M. on the 7th March and proceeded to the aid of the fishing-boats, which had been overtaken by a moderate gale from. E.N.E. and a heavy sea. All the boats got safely in with one...
A dozen of hearts ! and a dozen of hands! And the courage of death 1—'tis a York- shire boast; It was all they asked one November noon, When a hurricane blew on the Whitby coast.
For a cry came over the wailing sands,...
Category: Poetry
AMONGST the most interesting and im- portant subjects which, from time to time, have been treated in The Life-boat Journal, is that of the means to be resorted to for the restoration of the apparently drowned, and it is one in which the...
Category: Articles
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man-At 6.20 p.m. on i6th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flares and a signal fire had been sighted on the north end of the Calf of Man. There was a strong easterly wind with a moderate...
RAMSGATE.—In answer to signal guns fired by the North Goodwin Light-vessel, on the 12th March, the Life-boat Bradford proceeded in tow of the harbour steamtug Aid to the Sands, at 9.15 AM, and found the Brigantine Eagle, of Waterford, laden...