MK. EDGAR H. JOHNSON, the District Organizing Secretary for the North of England, arranged a special programme for the British Broadcaatmg Corporation, called " My Life-boat Programme," which, on. 4th May, was broadcast from the...
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Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 9.38 on the morning of the 31st of January, 1953, the coastguard telephoned to say a man at Skellister had reported that two men had left Gletness Nesting in aten-feet rowing boat at 7.30 to attend to their fishing...
"Peace hath her Victories No less renown'd than War."
THUS wrote the great poet of a war which he deemed, as we do our mighty conflict of to-day, one of Liberty against Tyranny, of the oppressed against...
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THE LORD SOUTHBOROUGH, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.S.I, P.C., who died in January, 1947, at the age of eighty-six, after an astonishingly full life of public service, had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1926, and was appointed a...
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By EDGAR H. JOHNSON, F.C.I.S., District Organizing Secretary for the North of England.I HAVE recently addressed on behalf of tie Life-boat Service three very different audiences—the business men of Manchester at a luncheon of the Rotary Club...
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After daylight on the 14th October, the fishing vessels of Newbiggin -were caught in a' sudden gale from the east, and obliged to j make for the port. Anticipating some i mishap, the Life-boat William HopJcinson, \ of BrigJiouse, was...
MONTBOSE.—On the morning of the 10th October, while the tug Storm King was towing the schooner Petrel, of and for Montrose, from Balta Sound, Shetland, the tow line broke, and the schooner went on the " Leads " rocks. A fresh N.E....
Information was received at 4.30 P.M.
on the 4th of April, during a moderate N.W. breeze, that a schooner was ashore on the North Stack, and required immediate assistance. The Thomas Fielding Life-boat was quickly taken out...