The steam trawler Bosa, of Montrose, in attempt- ing to cross the bar at low water, on the morning of the 4th August, was struck by a heavy sea, and having taken a sheer, stranded on the Annat Bank. There was a very heavy cross sea at the...
How came the might of England ? Not by the tongue or pen; Deeply it grew as a flower in the hearts of its bravest men.
And it scattered the seeds of heroes along the storm-swept shore, That they might work for glory,...
Category: Poetry
At 9.30 A.M.
on the 28th February the Coastguard reported that a ship was ashore at Bolberry Down. The crew of the Life- boat Alexander were at once assembled, and the boat was launched within a quarter of an hour. They...
THE jubilee celebrations of the Swedish Life-boat Society were held at Gothenburg from the 17th to the 19th of May. Captain V. M. Wyndham-Quin, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management, and Colonel A. D.
Burnett Brown...
Category: Articles
COMMANDER J. M. UPTON, M.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., who has been Super- intendent of the Life-boat Depot since 1941, has retired and has been suc- ceeded by Commander H. L. Wheeler, R.N.
Commander Upton, who was born at Petworth...
Category: Committee
Boulmer, Northumberland.—At 4.10 on the morning of the 1st of December, 1955, the coastguard reported that a ship had run ashore between Boulmer and Craster. At 4.55 the life-boat Clarissa Langdon was launched, with the second coxswain in...
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—In the early hours of the 16th of June, 1956, the lighthouse keeper telephoned that rockets were being fired two miles from the harbour. At 2.30 the life- boat Annie Blanche Smith put out in a very rough sea....
Cromer and Wells, Norfolk.—On the 26th March the French steamer Boree, of Caen, and the Spanish steamer Aizkarai Mendi, were in collision off East Dudgeon light-vessel. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The weather...
Search in dense fog A FLARE IN CHAPMAN'S POOL was reported to the deputy launching authority of Swanage lifeboat station at 2130 on Monday, June 14. Visibility was clear at the Coastguard lookout but there was a dense fog bank at sea...
Anchor dragged A RADIO MESSAGE from the charter boat Aqua-Manda, that the ex-naval cutter Overdraft II had run out of fuel and dragged her anchor and was drifting with two people on board, was reported to the honorary secretary of Clactonon-...