With threat'uing frown the sun sinks down, And leaves a lurid sky; The cloudy rack drives swift and black, The winds rise loud and high.
The mother hears the rising storm—• Her heart is sick and sad; Her thoughts go out...
Category: Poetry
IN June we were honoured by a visit from the COMTE DE BIZEMONT, the Chief Inspector of our sister service in France, and we need hardly say it was a great pleasure to welcome him and show him what he required to see. Among other things the...
Category: Articles
— On the evening of the 22nd January, the schooner Ann Mitchell went ashore near Fleetwood.
The new life-boat, not long before placed there by the NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTI- TUTION, was immediately launched, and taken in...
THOMAS CHAPMAN, ESQ., F.R.S., V.P., CHAIRMAN OF THE INSTITUTION, IN THE CHAIR.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide next...
Category: Meetings
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched 48 times and rescued 71 lives.
ESCORT FOR FLAMBOROUGH BOAT Flamborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 6th of January. 1954, a fishing coble was still at sea in...
Category: Services
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 24th of April, 1952, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Com- mittee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings
Six-hour service in horrific conditions to fishermen wrecked on rocks When the fishing vessel Sincerity went aground in stormy conditions off Ardlamont Point, the Campbeltown lifeboat had to travel 30 miles in total darkness just to reach...
Can you help? A message from Corporate Fundraising Manager Barbara Trousdell: Do you have a few hours to spare for a couple of weeks a year? Would you like to become involved in making sure local promotions in aid of the Institution run...
Category: Articles
During the morn- ing of the 13th June, the Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was launched in answer to guns from the East Goodwin Light-vessel, and on reaching her found the crew of the schooner Cicerone, five in number, taking refuge...
The steamer Mag- dala, of Glasgow, whilst bound from New York to Rotterdam with a cargo of grain, stranded on the Goodwin Sands on the 22nd October. The steamer was a Belgian relief ship. She was seen to strike the sands and the Life-boat...