The day bells sang out for Blogg's boys Philip Thouless looks back 65 years to when he witnessed one of the finest hours of Cromer lif eboatmen — led by the renowned Coxswain Henry Blogg.
At 0400 on 13 December 1933,...
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THE sky is black with the tempest wrack, And the wares roll mountains high, And the wild winds shriek o'er the head- lands bleak, And the startled sea-mews cry; For the Storm Fiend rides the boiling foam, And his deep and panting breath...
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HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The No. 1 Life-boat Gfrace Darling was launched at noon on the 15th February to the assistance of the fishing-boats which were in danger, a strong wind and a very heavy sea having sprung up since they had gone to...
HOLY ISLAND.—Great anxiety was felt here on the 16th February regarding one of the fishing-cobles, the Guiding Star, with four men on board, which had not returned to the harbour. Night was drawing near, the wind, which had sprung up...
VERY HEAVY SEA North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 8.30 a.m. on i2th September, 1964, the life-boat's mechanic informed the honorary secretary that five small fishing boats were out and that a very heavy sea was...
I.—Preliminary Remarks, IN a country bounded on all sides by the sea, whose earliest associations are connected with it, through the medium of which it has derived its civilization, its wealth, its grand political status, and probably to a...
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The fishing fleet put to sea early on the morning of the 7th April. Later the sea got up, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Jacob and Rachel Vallentine was launched at 11.25 A.M., to the help of three small motor cobles which had not...
On the after- noon of the 9th November seven men in a small boat from the steam trawler Pennard Castle, of Swansea, who had come ashore during the afternoon, tried to get back to the trawler. A strong north gale was blowing, with a heavy sea...
Caister, Norfolk.—At 6.13 A.M. on the 25th November, 1937, the watchman reported that a vessel was blowingcontinuously on her siren. A light west breeze was blowing, with a slight sea, and the weather was foggy. The pulling and sailing...
A DANGEROUS HARBOUR BAR Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 11.30 in the morning of the 4th of December, 1947, word was received that local fishing cobles and other boats were coming in. The tide was ebbing, a light easterly breeze was blowing and...