ON 25th October last, the Motor Lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, went to the help of a small boat which, while on the way from Walton to Clacton, had been carried out to sea.
The sea was rough, with heavy squalls...
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a m«n heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support auother...
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'Tis a stormy night, and the wild winds roar, The waves roll mountains high, And the Life-boat crew are called to the shore, For a ship to the rocks in nigh.
Not a moment waver our heroes bold, As their boat they...
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'Tis a stormy night, and the wild winds roar, The waves roll mountains high, And the Life-boat crew are called to the shore.
For a ship to the rocks is nigh. : Not a moment waver our heroes bold, As their boat they...
Category: Poetry
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK ; CAISTEB, WIXTERTON-, PALLING, AND CBOMEE, NORFOLK.—In the early hours of 29th January, the s.s. Newbarn of Newcastle, which is a big steamer of more than 3,000 tons, ran aground on the southern end of the Hasboro'...
ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 11 A.M on the 12th June, 1939, information was received that a girl had fallen down the cliffs at Haggington Beach, Hele Bay. A strong boat was borrowed for the job, and the Institution’s petrol was used.- Rewards...
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During the forenoon of the 19th January, the schooner Arrow Belle, of Aberystwith, bound from Glen- dower to Greenock, but then at anchor in the Bay of Dublin, parted from her cables and drove ashore near North Bull. A strong gale from the S...
FEBRUARY 5TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. At 11.20 on the night of the 4th February, the coast watcher at Brownstown Head reported that a steam trawler was aground on a sandbank on the east side of Tramore Bay, and was showing flares. The...
Mrs. B. E. Ragg, of Kenilworth, is 76 years old and during the four days of the Royal Show last year collected nearly £160. Considering that the weather throughout the show was extremely hot, for a 76-year-old collecting for Jive or six...
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