Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—28th February.
At 11.19 A.M. the coastguard reported that the s.s. Miguel, of Bilbao, was in difficulties with her steeringchain broken, about twelve miles E.N.E. of West Hartlepool. A...
We would like to express the grateful thanks of the Institution to the following firms of publishers who have generously inserted the leaflet of the Institution in their Christmas issues or have given us a free advertisement in their pages...
Category: Correspondence
ABOUT eight in the morning of 20th December, 1938,' the life-boat watch- man at Rosslare Harbour, County Wexford, reported that he could see a schooner apparently at anchor near Splaugh Rocks. An easterly gale was blowing, with a very...
Category: Services
THE LOSS of Penlee lifeboat and her crew stunned people throughout Great Britain and Ireland and thousands of messages of sympathy from many parts of the world were received by the bereaved families. Before she was lost, the lifeboat Solomon...
Category: Articles
The first Life- boat service in the year 1872 was, that on the 1st January, by the boat on this station, it happening to be the only service performed by a Life-boat of the Institution on New Year's Day, 1872.
The...
WHAT is more precious than a human life, But what more frail ? What stronger in its might.
Or lovelier in its strength, than the fair sight Of noble man contending with the strife Of some more powerful foe ? Such is our...
Category: Poetry
WATERFORD. A W. by S. wind was OC T . 9 T H - HELVICK HEAD, CO.
blowing, with a heavy sea. At 2 P.M. the motor life-boat Elsie was launched to the help of the motor vessel West Coaster, of London, which was in distress in...
WHEN a shrieking, thund'rous tempest Breaks the stillness of the night, And a ship in seething waters Wages impotential fight; As the life-croft to the rescue, Gallant oarsmen speed afloat— Do we realise the perils Of the men who man the...
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HMS Kedleston and other escorts accompany City of Edinburgh up the Forth. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of The Scotsman. - View image in PDF
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With deep regret we record the following deaths: JANUARY 1995 Les Abbot, chairman of Long Eaton branch from 1980 until his death. He was awarded a Silver badge in 1991.
FEBRUARY 1995 David Calvin-Thomas MBE, chairman of...
Category: Obituaries