IN SHALLOW WATER At 11.11 p.m. on the same day the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a ship was aground in a moderate sea three miles off North Foreland. It was one hour after low water and there was a moderate westerly breeze....
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 139 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 25 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1938 - - - - 65,989 To Five Vessels in One...
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DURING the last three years good progress has been made with the all-important system of electrical communication on the coast for life-saving purposes, pro- moted by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. The majority of the most...
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At about 11.30 A.M. on the 15th January the Coxswain was informed by fisher- men, who had just returned, that the local shrimping boat Jenny, with only one man on board, was flying a distress signal. In a moderate S. to S.W. gale, with a...
THE splendid services carried out by the crew of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon, on the occasion of the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla off Whitby, in 1914, are probably still fresh in the memory of our readers, and the fine...
WHEN the wrath of the tempest bursts over the deep, And the woe-laden winds from their fastnesses sweep, And revel and shriek in their terrible glee, As they whirl o'er the breast of the pitiless sea: When the foam-crested billows surge...
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TRAWLER DRIFTING At 6.17 a.m. on 3rd March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Aberdeen trawler Ben Arthur was dragging her anchor and drifting on to the shore at Goat Islands in Stornoway Harbour, and that her...
" Bill" Adams of the Goodwins died at Deal in 1926. The tempestuous weather round our coasts which heralded 1930 has spoken loudly to us of him and of his dauntless successors.
I WILL ADAMS of the Goodwin Sands !...
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STORM ON THE WATERS The Story of the Life-boat Service in the War of 1939-1945 By CHARLES VINCE " Read it, and you will hear the gales roaring; no breeziness here, no mere soldier's wind, but a blow to match the courage of the...
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Backbone of the FishingTrade.
This was one that didn't get away. One of a thousand million.
A thousand million of the reasons why every day and night men put out to sea in all weathers to earn their...
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