Children test their speedway skills on mini motor bikes at one of the sideshows at Tynemouth's harbour spectacular that took place on the afternoon and evening of the royal wedding day last July: it was attended by 15,000... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
IN March Mr. N. V. Wade, the honorary treasurer of the Shiplovers' Society of New South Wales, wrote to the Institution to say that there were Shiplovers' Societies not only in London and Bristol, but in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide...
Category: Correspondence
TtrE day is spent ; the ied sun sinks Beneath the Western wave; The light bark gaily holds her course With her crew so stout and brave.
A few short hours, and all is changed; For loudly howls the Wast, And o'er the...
Category: Poetry
Storm search A PROLONGED SEARCH was made by Padstow, St Ives and Clovelly lifeboats in a south-westerly storm for the Danish coaster Lady Kamilla, which foundered off Trevose Head on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1977, and for her crew of nine...
Royal Bank account* that&ave live* at tea For the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) to be able to continue its valiant and valuable work saving lives at sea, it needs to be able to plan ahead when it comes to fundraising. This...
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A Christmas pantomime, 'Aladin', performed by the Little Theatre Charity Pantomime Company raised £2,000 for Teesmouth lifeboat. Mr R. E. H. Winterschladen, manager of the company, together with members of the cast, presented... - View image in PDF
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As all readers of The Lifeboat know, the city of Bradford has been conspicuously generous in its support of the Life-boat Service, and nowhere, on the coast or inland, has the...
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Several services have been j performed this year by the valuable Life- boat on this station, the Bradford, in conjunction with her handy and ever- ready consort, tho harbour steam-tug Vulcan. Tho first was that rendered on the 7th January....
THE crash of timbers and the rasp of rock, ; The mocking tongue of Death in frenzy wags The stricken ship—mere plaything of the Beneath its ghostly, ghastly, fleshless lip.
gale- Lies helpless, while the cruel...
Category: Poetry
MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. — On the evening of the 6th October the Coxswain of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 5 received a telegram from Whitehaven warning him to watch for a barque coming up the Solway Firth. A strong gale was blowing from S.W....