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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Left to right: Girvan Lifeboat Operations Manager Colin McKechnie, Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin MP and Coxswain Roddy Leitch Photo: Carrie* Gazette. - View image in PDF
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The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
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MARCH 3RD. - NEW BRIGHTON , CHESHIRE. At 6.25 P.M . the Hoylake coastguard reported a motor boat in difficulties on Burbo Bank, and the No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson left her moorings at 6.45 P.M. A moderate S.E. wind was...
RUN quick, ring out the Life-boat, and quick ring out the crew, No tempest that could daunt them o'er England ever blew.
Where wood upon the water can ever float and save.
The boatmen of Britannia...
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Cromer's famous son Henry Blogg is the most decorated RNLI crew member of all time. What kind of man was this lifeboating legend, and what did he do to earn such accolades? Henry Blogg's time as a crew member and coxswain was an...
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THE unusually heavy gale, or rather hurricane, of the night of the 24th October last, was unexampled in its work of destruction in our maritime records. During the whole of that day not a single casualty, with one trifling exception,...
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His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President, IN THE CHAIE.
1.—Moved by His Grace The DUKE OF PORTLAND.
Seconded by The Eight Hon. The EAKL PEECY, P.O., M.P.,...
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ILB DAMAGED BY CASUALTY A MESSAGE was received at 7.05 p.m. on 3rd October, 1971, at Mumbles, Glamorganshire, that a man was probably marooned in a boat in Mumbles Bay. While investigating this report, the Coastguard sighted red flares 13...
TWO LIFE-BOATS PUT OUT TO YACHT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire, and Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the Llandudno coastguard reported that a small motor boat, which had six yachts in tow, was making no...