How came the might of England ? Not by the tongue or pen; Deeply it grew as a flower in the hearts of its bravest men.
And it scattered the seeds of heroes along the storm-swept shore, That they might work for glory,...
Category: Poetry
AT a ceremony in the Council Chamber at Fowey, Cornwall, on the 7th of December, 1959, Lieut.-Commander H.
H. Harvey, Western District Inspector, handed the vellum commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the establish-...
Category: Articles
OCTOBER 30TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 6.49 A.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea about two miles east of Sheringham, and a few minutes later the coastguard rang up again to say that he...
At the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 21st day of March, 1861;, Vice-Admiral the Eight Honourable the Earl of HARDWICKE in the Chair, The following report of the...
Category: Annual Reports
ON the night of 2nd March, 1937, the Grimsby steam trawler, Lord Ernie, bound for Grimsby from the White Sea, with a crew of fifteen men, went ashore under Bempton Cliffs, north of Flamborough Head. The harbour- master at Bridlington picked...
Category: Services
Years Ago The following article appeared in the March, 1937 issue of THE LIFEBOAT: Fifty-two Lives Rescued.
A Bronze-Medal Service at Torbay.
Early in the morning of 23rd January the 4,000-ton steamer...
Category: Articles
THE hurricane-force winds which caused so much damage in the south of England last October resulted in a dozen launches by lifeboats in the area affected by the storm, with three of the services leading to medal awards.
The...
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EVERY reader of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL will remember how the whole civilized world was appalled at the sad news of the wreck of the s.s. Berlin at the mouth of the Hook of Holland on the 21st February, 1907, when so many precious lives were...
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