About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne. The crew consisted...
Knighthood for RNLI Chairman The RNLFs chairman became Sir Michael Vernon when he was made a Knight Bachelor in the Queen's New Year Honours list in recognition of his services to the Institution.
Sir Michael joined the...
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" Thy flitting form comes ghostly dull and pale, As driven by the beating storm at sea; Thy cry is weak and scared, As if thy mates had shared The doom of us. Thy wail— What does it bring to me ?" IT was perhaps an impious wish,...
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Ox the afternoon of Saturday, the 17th of November. 1956, a man who lived at Portland in Dorset. Mr. H.
W. Wilkinson, went out in his 20-feet motor boat Hilda Mari/ from Castletown and made for Portland Bill, where he...
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DECEMBER MEETING, LOSSIEMOUTH, MORAYSHIRE. About 5.30 in the morning of the 30th July, 1941, a motor fishing vessel at sea, some four miles N.W. by N. from Lossiemouth, heard shouts for help, and cruising round picked up two airmen from a...
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At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 18th day of March, 1899, the Eight Hon.
the Earl of DERBY, K.G-., G.C.B.,...
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This Life-boat again did excellent ser- vice on the 21st October. Soon after dark on that day the schooner Auld 'Reekie, bound from Middlesborough to Barcelona with pitch, got ashore on the North Gare, at the entrance of the Biver Tees....
STORM on the waters; and the cruel wind Howls like a savage beast whose riven chain Hath loosed to slaughter; on the shore the grind, The rush, the hiss of the vexed waves complain, Sounding like solemn dirge, 'mid plash of driving...
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 120 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 56 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1933 .... 63,450 A Remarkable Life-boat...
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EARL HOWE, the former chairman of the Committee of Management, has been appointed honorary chairman for life of the Institution. This appoint- ment brings to an end an active period of work on behalf of the life-boat service extending over...
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