The Life-boat Hollon the Third was launched to the assistance of the fishing-cobles which had been overtaken by a sudden S. gale on the 2nd December. Most of the boats suc- ceeded in getting into safety, but two of them, named the Ursula...
Fowey, Cornwall. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 13th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boys were trapped on the rocks at Portnodler Bay near Looe. At 9.37, when the life-boat Deneys Reitz...
On the afternoon of the 24th February a vessel was observed to run ashore close to Kings- down. The crew of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave were assembled, and with the assistance of the haul-off warp the boat was launched, and proceeded to...
Andrew Cruickshank and Kenneth Connor were appearing at Nottingham Theatre Royal the week the box office opened for 'Premises Premises', the show performed free for Nottingham and District branch by Cambridge Footlights on July 18.... - View image in PDF
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CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. While returning to Carradale at 10.30 in the morning of the 1st of May, 1943, after discharging herrings at Campbeltown, the crew of the fishing boat Amy Harris were passed in Campbeltown Loch by a flying boat...
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ON 30th May, at Whitby, five boys, from eight to seventeen years of age, were coming into the harbour, just before seven in the evening, in a small pleasure boat. There was a light breeze blowing and the sea was smooth, but there was a swell...
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Late in 1995, seven members of Dunbar lifeboat crew and their Coxswain, Noel Wright, attended the pre-commissioning training for their new Trent class lifeboat at RNLI headquarters in Poole. The final part of the course was their passage...
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(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) The Institution granted rewards for the saving of 428 lives by the Life- Boats in 1893, and of 170 lives by fishing and other boats during the same period, the total number of lives, for the saving of which...
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"Tis a terrible night, and the seas run mountains high, The wind is howling fiercely, with a dark and sullen sky; Eyes are aching and blinded with the driving sleet and rain, And thoughts turn to those who are going out, who may never...
Category: Poetry
During a strong W.N.W. breeze, accompanied by a rough sea in the early morning of the 21st September, the Coastguard reported that signals of distress were being made from the middle part of the Cockle Sands. It was then 4.10 A.M., and with...