To help support this noble cause May we not plead in vain; God help the hearts that risk their lives For others on the main.
Far on the angry billows deep, Mid lightning's vivid gleam, "Where heav'n's...
Category: Poetry
The first four pages of the Report give an historical sketch of the Institution, and describe its object, composition and management, after which it continues as follows:— COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE INSTITUTION.
During the...
Category: Articles
AT three in the afternoon of Sunday, the 3rd of April, the coastguard at Rossall told the coxswain of the life-boat that they could see a vessel outside the harbour in a dangerous position. She was about two miles away to the north-west of...
Category: Services
. . . and at Flint he checks the outboard engine.. - View image in PDF
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AFTER the reading of the Annual REPORT and Balance Sheet the following Resolutions were carried unanimously :— Moved by Ca.pt. A. ELLICE, R.N., Comptroller-General of the Coast-Guard, and seconded by Colonel BLANSHARD, C.B., Commandant of...
Category: Meetings
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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MARCH No. 1 Life-boat Area Wick, Caithness - At 8.52 p.m. on 27th March, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler had grounded hard and fast on the Louther Skerries. At 9.10 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...
Category: Services
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st March to 31st May: Launches 359, lives saved 156 MARCH SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 11.8 a.m. on 4th March, 1966, a message was received that the tanker Blandford had...
Category: Services
OCTOBER 11TH - 12TH. THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. The frigate Cheboque, of the Royal Canadian Navy, had been torpedoed in the Atlantic eleven hundred miles away, with the loss of one of her crew of forty-three, and severe damage to her stern...
At 7 A.M. on the 8th January a message was received that signal guns were being fired by j the Lightvessels which protect the .
Goodwin Sands. Orders were at once given for the Life-boat Bradford to...