Sounds of music float along; Seas flow in with summer song ; For the sands are gay, and children play Where storms rage fierce on wintry day.
" A penny in the elot—H peril from the sea !" A coin from me, a coin...
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ONCE more we are in a position to present to our readers a review of the casualties in shipping, the loss of life incurred, and the lives saved by the Institution in the year ending June 30th, 1912, based upon the Abstracts of Shipping...
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The whole loss of lives during the year, as far as has been ascertained, amounts to 1,549.
Of these, 13 were lost in the Embla, wrecked near Blyth in a snow-storrn, on the 7th of January; 290 in the Tayleur, wrecked at...
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IN the July Number of the Life-Boat Journal for 1852, will be found a brief account of the Foreign Life-boat Stations on the coasts of France, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark; we are gratified to learn from a recent traveller, that there is a...
Category: Correspondence
WE are glad to be in a position to present to our readers our customary annual review of the casualties in shipping, the loss of life incurred, and the lives saved by the Institution in the year ending June 30th, 1913, in connexion with the...
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THE last Wreck Register of the British Isles published by the Board of Trade continues to tell the same sad tale of fearful disasters at sea as of yore, last year claiming 3,002 as haying occurred in the seas and on the coasts of the United...
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A FOREIGNER, looking at the Wreck Chart of the British Isles, might not unnaturally conceive that a very large proportion of the ships that pass to and from our ports every year were wrecked on our shores. When, however, he came to be...
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IN the face of the gratifying fact that our commerce is year by year expanding itself by many thousands of tons of shipping, it is a lamentable and mortifying truth, that the advance of our science and skill does not keep pace with this...
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IF there be one subject more than another that might be expected to command the attention and enlist the sympathy of a maritime country like Great Britain, it surely must be the safety and welfare of those of her sons " whose business...
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TO THE EDITOR Or THE TIMES.
SIR The severe loss of life occasioned by shipwrecks off the coasts of the United Kingdom during the last year ought to direct the attention of every friend of humanity to the most efficacious...
Category: Correspondence