WHAT task on earth can man perform More noble or more brave, Than risk his days, and all he hath, Another's life to save ? Yet thanks to Him who rules above, Such men are to be found, 'Mong whom the sturdy Life-boat crews That watch...
Category: Poetry
On the morning of the 19th April, large red flares were seen on the Middle Gross Sand, and the Middle Cross, St.
Nicholas, and Gorton light-vessels were firing rockets. The No. 1 Life-boat, Covent Garden was launched, a...
REGISTER OF SHIPWRECKS ON THE COASTS AND IN THE SEAS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.
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Category: Articles
'T'HE great services which were rendered by the Life-boats to the Allied cause during the War have been referred to in precious numbers of THE LIFE-BOAT. The full list of the services in the last year of the War, during which rewards...
Category: Services
Coxswain Gerald McLoughlin of Howth read one of the lessons at the commemorative service in the National Cathedral ofSt Patrick, Dublin. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
APRIL. 23RD. - CLACTON - ON-SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Clacton-on-Sea, £25 3s. ; Walton and Frinton,.
On the 29th Jan- uary, during a south-westerly gale, the coal- laden brig Queenofthe Tyne, of South Shields, went on the Gorton Sand. The life-boat Iiostitia promptly proceeded off to the scene of the wreck, and on reaching the spot found...
Trapped_men rescued from pier supports D class thrown against pier supports and holed during night service Sometimes the need to save a life over-rides all other considerations...
When Eastbourne lifeboat station heard that...
Category: Services
Atlantic On The Other End Of The Tow Line!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The village of Carbost, on the shore of a sheltered sea loch on the west coast of the Isle of Skye, together with the villages of Portnalong and Fiskavaig, forms a small community mostly of crofters and farmers. One perfect summer day last... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs