One hundred years on from the sinking of RMS Titanic we are reminded of the continuing perils of the sea with the recent with the Costa Concordia
Both incidents involved loss of life, with...
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HE rose at dawn, and, flushed with hope, Shot o'er the seething harbour-bar, And reached the ship and caught the rope, And whistled to the morning star.
And while on deck he whistled loud, He heard a fierce mermaiden...
Category: Poetry
THE cover picture on this quarter's journal is of Coxswain Richard Muir of Seaham. He was appointed on the 21st November, 1962, four days after the life-boat disaster in which the previous coxswain, J. T. Miller, lost his life while on...
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THIS question was briefly touched on in the article in this Journal on " The Changes in the Institution's Life-boat Fleet since 1897," published in February last. Not very many years ago it was brought as a charge against the...
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The Cruising Association Handbook, Revised Edition 1971. (The Cruising Association, 490 pp, £6).
• This new edition covers the waters of Britain and Ireland and continental Europe from Kiel to Gibraltar. The coverage...
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Launches 52 Lives rescued 54 DECEMBER 2ND. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 6.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel three miles south-east of St. Ives Head had signalled that she was sinking. A moderate...
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The pages of the Lifeboat feature many brave and skilful rescues but it is easy to overlook that, before a lifeboat reaches a casualty, just launching can be a demanding task If all lifeboat stations were based in easily accessible harbours...
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WHEN the maritime character of this country is considered, and the liability of a large portion of its population to be at one time or another exposed to the " dangers of the seas," surprise maybe well excited at the facts—that but...
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BODIMIB, NOBTHTJMBEBLAND.— At 1.30 A.M. on the 26th October the Robin Hood of Nottingham Life-boat put off and rescued the crew, consisting of four men, from the brig Success,of Sunderland, bound from that port for Arbroath with a cargo of...