Dunbar, East Lothian. At two o'clock on the morning of the 9th of Nov- ember, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Edinburgh had reported the sailing boat Mudlark, with three young men on board, missing...
Two steamers from which the Walmer life-boat rescued eighty-three lives. In the foreground, the American Luray Victory, wrecked on January 30th, 1946; in the background, the Greek ha, wrecked on March 8th, 1947. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
CARNSORE, IRELAND.—At about 7 P.M. on the 24th December, a signal of distress was shown from the Tuskar Rock.
The Iris Life-boat proceeded there and found a wrecked vessel, which was hailed, but no answer was received. The...
NOVEMBER 18TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.10 in the afternoon a steamer had been seen to go ashore on the Goodwin Sands. A moderate north-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was...
ONE night in Autumn, lately past, remembered by a chilly blast, That swept o'er all the country wide, While sitting at the warm fireside, I mused on all the trials sore, Of Mariners around our shore; As day by day, the papers tell,...
Category: Poetry
THE memory of the late distinguished Viceroy of India will, like many of his great predecessors, be long honoured and held in affectionate remembrance. Lord Lawrence took considerable interest in the welfare of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT...
Category: Obituaries
Falmouth, Cornwall. — About 6.45 in the evening, on the 23rd of April, 1950, the police reported that a man had been found unconscious at St. Just. When he recovered he had told them a com- panion was adrift in the sailing boat Shira. At...
OLD WARSHIP ADRIFT Holynead, Anglesey.—At 9.5 in the morning of the 24th of March, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that an SOS had been picked up by Seaforth and Plymouth Wireless Stations giving a bearing six miles south-west of...
Dover, Kent.—While on passage on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1957, from Rowledge to Dover, where she was to be stationed temporarily, the life-boat Cunard received a message on her radio telephone that a member of the crew of the...
THE KING'S APPRECIATION OF THE INSTITUTION'S WORK.
In reply to a letter from the Chairman of the Institution, drawing attention to the splendid services rendered by the Life-boats in connexion with the War, and the...
Category: Correspondence