Big problems with little ships I was fascinated to read about the 34 calls to which the Poole lifeboat responded on August Bank Holiday last year. It certainly sounds like the record for one station.
Another interesting set...
Category: Correspondence
INTERESTING CEREMONY AT THE MANSION HOUSE, DUBLIN.
A VERY interesting ceremony took place on the 6th March last at the Mansion House, Dublin, when the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of that city made (at the request of Miss...
Category: Poetry
• The quality of lifeboat station histories seems to improve steadily. A recent outstanding example is The Men of The Mumbles Head by Carl Smith (J. D. Lewis and Sons, Gower Press, Llandysul, Dyfed, £3.50).
Mr Smith,...
Category: Articles
AMONG those men distinguished in the annals of their country for their exertions in the cause of humanity in saving life from ship- wreck, the name of Sir WILLIAM HILLARY must always claim a foremost place, not only as having personally...
Category: Articles
( With an Illustration.") " THERE'S two ends to every trouble, Mary; there's the end that goes downward and drags us to the earth, and there's the end that goes upwards and draws us to...
Category: Articles
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 2.50 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1949, the police informed the life-boat coxswain that the S.S. Corn- wood, of Hartlepool, outside the harbour, had a sick man aboard in urgent need of help,...
Launches 32. Lives rescued 24.
MAY 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO.
WEXFORD. During the afternoon the coxswain was watching the Wexford pilot boat off Wexford Bar, apparently waiting for the tide. A N.N.E....
Category: Services
NEWHAVEN.—On the 3rd January last, a dismasted vessel having been seen off the harbour, the Life-boat Michael Henry pro- ceeded out to her. The wind was blowing moderately from W.S.W. and a heavy sea was running. On arriving at the vessel it...
Category: Services
A rum do! Lord Stanley, chairman of the RNLI's Fund Raising Committee, was presented with a cheque for £6,000 at Aberdeen lifeboat station by Mr dune Stewart, district manager of Watsons Rum, as part of the United Rum Merchants/RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dear Editor This is my Paddington, who visited Space Camp Alabama, US, with me for a two-week advanced academy programme. He had a go in the flight simulator and was even in a mock helicopter escape – his rubber ring came in handy! He liked... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs