Steady, brave and earnest, See them as they stand, Waiting for the signal That bids them leave the land.
Out upon the waters, Lashed to fury now, Each man and youth is working With a grave and anxious...
Category: Poetry
PORTHDINLLAEN.—While a strong wind was blowing from the E.N.E., with heavy squalls of snow and a heavy sea, on the llth Jan. 1892, the schooner Rose, of Carnarvon, dragged her anchors while lying in Porthdinllaen Bay and went...
St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 1st July the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore near Pendeen. She was the Italian steamer Aida Lauro, of Naples, bound from Liverpool to Hull with a cargo of linseed and cotton seed,...
Filey, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 12th November, 1937, nine fishing cobles put to sea. At 8.55 A.M.
a squally N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The pulling and sailing life-boat Thomas Masterman Hardy...
On the 17th September the French schooner Goeland, of Paimpol, was in distress in a strong gale, with a very heavy sea, and the motor life-boat Prince David rescued the crew of six.—Rewards, silver medal, bronze medals, thanks of the...
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the 5th of June, 1948, the engines of the sixty- three-ton motor yacht Mite, on passage from Malta to London, broke down some fifteen miles west of Portland Bill in a south-south-west gale with a very rough sea. The...
Newcastle, Co. Down. — At 4.20 on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1952, a R.A.F. officer at Glasdrumman telephoned that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties about three miles off Glasdrumman. She was drifting sea- wards broadside to...
MESSES. H. JENKINS, LTD., the photographers, of 2, Pier Terrace, Lowestoft, whose photographs will be well known to readers of The Life-boat, have, for the third year, issued "A Fishing Fleet Calendar." It has fourteen pages, with...
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The Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society is interested in the past and the present. This fine photograph, typical of the kind of pictures which members bring to light, shows the Dickinson Edleston life-boat which was stationed at Longhope,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Henry Cooper, hero of sporting Britain, announced his retirement from boxing after losing his European, British and Commonwealth titles at the Empire Pool, Wembley, on 16th March, 1971, to Joe Bugner. But Henry Cooper still had time for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs