MAY 8TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN.
At 6 A.M. a telephone message was received from the coastguard at Bangor asking for the life-boat to go to a vessel in distress off Portpatrick on the coast of...
Mr and Mrs Cowan of Lanarkshire scooped first prize in the Winter 2009 Lifeboat Lottery and met the staff and volunteers of Troon Lifeboat Station when they picked up their prize of £5,000.
Mr Cowan says: ‘It’s all...
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It’s time to get in training for a Reindeer Run near you (just think how many mince pies you’ll burn off in advance)!
This year, the RNLI’s most festive fundraiser will take place at 13 different venues in late November...
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On the 18th December last, the brig Eliza, of Montrose, drove from her anchors in Yarmouth roads and went on shore, during a violent gale from E.S.E. and heavy sea. The Gorles-ton seamen's life-boat was immediately launched and succeeded...
WHAT monument can mourners rear To those whose umnark'd graves Lie far from all they held most dear, Fathoms below the waves ? No stately pile of sculptured stone Should tell their modest worth, No proud heraldic shield make known The...
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JANUARY 29TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At about 6.30 P.M. the coastguard reported a steamer burning flares some three miles N.E. of the Knock Lightship.
A fresh E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and snow...
THE following story comes from the North of England. Two gentlemen were so convinced that each was accurate in a certain statement that they had a small wager on the result.
Naturally one lost, and our Organising Secretary...
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AT 2.15 ih the morning of 27th January a message was received at the Penlee life-boat station from the coast- guard that a ship appeared to be on fire near Gear Rock in Mounts Bay.
Twenty minutes later the motor life- boat...
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The enchanting poem 'Footprints' has touched many lives with its tender and simple message of hope. Evoking a powerful image of Cod carrying us through times of trouble, this deeply moving passage has inspired the master goldsmiths...
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On the 30th of December last, at 3-30 p.m., the schooner Agenaria, of Bideford, when running in a crippled state for the harbour of Tenby, during a strong S.E. gale, broached-to, and was driven on shore on the south side of the port. The...