FULL many a tongue and full many a pen Has told of the praise of the Life-boat men.
Their daring deeds are their country's boast, From the Shetland Isles to the Cornish coast; From treacherous quicksand and sunken rock...
Category: Poetry
1.—Moved by His Grace The DUKE OF ARGYLL, KG., K.T.
Seconded by Admiral of the Fleet The Hon. SIR HENRY KEPPEL, G.C.B.
1.—That the Report now read be adopted, printed, and...
Category: Meetings
WILLIE PARR Lifeboatman Willie Parr* sailed into history when a brewery decided to immortalise him.
*The story of Willie Parr appeared in the Manchester edition of the Daily Mirror on December 13,...
Category: Articles
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Royal National Life-boat Institution recently named two new motor life-boats; one in March and one in May. The first, on March 29th, was at New Brighton, to whose station a 52-foot Barnett...
Category: Inaugurations
[This article appeared in The Lancet for 29th, June 1946, in the feature "In England Now," and is reproduced by kind permission of the author and the editor of The Lancet.] OCCASIONALLY we read in our daily paper "The...
Category: Articles
CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The Coastguard at Cresswell Point reported that a steamer was ashore about a mile S. of the Life-boat station, during a strong S.E. wind and a strong sea, on the 24th December, whereupon the Life-boat Ellen and...
LIFE-BOATS USED BECAUSE ROADS WERE BLOCKED Lerwick, Shetlands.—Just after 10.0 in the morning of February 27th, 1947, when all roads were completely blocked by snow, information was received from the Gilbert Bain Hospital that a girl...
Longhope, Orkneys, Wick, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Early on the morning of the 12th January the Finnish motor vessel Johanna Thorden strucka rock in the Pentland Firth. She had thirty-eight persons, including women and children, on board,...
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 11.45 A.M. on the 18th June the honorary secretary received a telephone message that an aeroplane had been seen to fall into the water near No. 6 buoy, off Shanwell Sands. The motor life-boat John Ryburn was away...
PARAVANE TOWED Holy Island, Northumberland. On Tuesday, 9th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an unidentified object had been seen one and a half miles north of Megstone and as the life-boat Gertrude was to...