The Duke of Montrose at The Cromarty Ceremony. - View image in PDF
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The Archbishop of York and The Bridlington Crew. - View image in PDF
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It was approaching the last hour of duty for lifeguards at Pendine, Carmarthenshire, but they wouldn't be hanging up their wetsuits for the year just yet.
On 5 September 2010 John O’Boyle, James Shuttleworth and Matt...
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On the afternoon of the 20th March this coast was suddenly visited by a tremendous storm from the N.N.W., and shortly afterwards information arrived that a large vessel was in a most precarious position off Morte Stone, a dan- gerous reef...
After the children of Bishop Goodwin Junior School, Carlisle, had worked for two weeks to raise a princely £372.03, it was only natural that Grace Dent, a distant relation of Grace Darling, should hand over the cheque. Receiving the... - View image in PDF
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SINCE the publication of the last number of The Life-Boat Journal, the Board of Trade has issued its annual Blue Book —so deeply interesting to all taking an interest in sailors and shipping—giving in many admirably arranged tables the...
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THE British Public is much indebted to the BOARD OF TKADE for the carefully prepared tables and statistics which it provides year by year in connection with the shipping disasters which occur on or near the coasts of the United...
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On 5th May, 1943, the Wells life-boat took part in an interesting service in which the R.A.F. for the first time dropped an airborne life-boat to a 'ditched' bomber crew off the East Anglian coast. The 'ditched' crew received... - View image in PDF
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JESU bless oar slender boat, By the torrent swept along; Loud its threatening—let them not Drown the music of a song Breathed Thy mercy to implore, Where these troubled waters roar! Guide our bark among the waves; Through the surf our...
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THE bowman of the Walmer life-boat, James Rich, collapsed and died in the life-boat when she went out, on the 24th of December 1950, to the help of the Italian motor vessel Santagata, and rescued her crew of thirty-two. An account of the...
Category: Obituaries