God help our men at sea! In firelit, pictured rooms, 'mid wine and flowers, And gleesome company, The wild winds awe us, in our blithest hours, To sigh this prayer; God help our men at sea ! I had a brother once. Our love ne'er...
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KIMERIDGE, DORSET.—A vessel was reported ashore on Kimeridge Ledge during a thick fog, a heavy ground sea, and a fresh S.W. wind, on the 26th June. The Life-boat Augustus Arkwright was launched at 9 P.M. and found the stranded vessel was the...
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. — The steam trawler Pelagos, of Granton, ran ashore on South Carr rocks in a dense fog on the morning of the llth July, while returning to Granton from the North Sea fishing grounds. A moderate east breeze was...
On the night of the 21st June the coastguard tele- phoned that a ship was ashore on Beachy Head ledge. The sea was smooth, but there was a very thick fog.
The Eastbourne life-boat was off ser- vice for overhaul and the...
Reg Dawe names Treaddurr Bay lifeboat Dorothy Selina in memory of his late wife-. - View image in PDF
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Cromer, Norfolk.—The motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 2.25 A.M. on the 27th December, 1938, as information had been received from the coastguard that the 2,100 ton Finnish steamer Otto H, of Pori, was aground at Eccles, between...
SINCE 1931 LIFE-BOATS HAVE BEEN BUILT FOR THE RNLI BY GROVES AND GUTTRIDGE EAST COWES ISLE OF WIGHT Tel: Cowes 2561.
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AUGUST 29TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 10.45 P.M. the resident naval officer asked that the life-boat crew should stand by, and at 11.20 P.M. the motor lifeboat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched to take out an officer, who was...
Fishing vessel sinking ORANGE SMOKE observed one mile east of Chapel Point and six miles north of the lifeboat station was reported to Skegness honorary secretary at 1557 on Tuesday, June 29.
In good visibility and with a...