IN the course of five weeks of the war, from 10th October to 14th November, 1939, the motor life-boat at the Humber was out on service ten times and rescued 102 lives. For three of these services Coxswain Robert Cross was awarded a clasp to...
Category: Services
BELONGING TO on IN CONNECTION WITH T STATION. Length. Breadth. No. of Oars. When Stationed £ or Named. ENGLAND. Ft. In. Ft. In. NORTHUMBERLAND BERWICK-OS-TWEED - - - 37 - 8 - 12 1888 HOLY...
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Seafarers all Kindly accept this 'widow's mite' in aid of your good service. I lost two brothers at sea and three uncles and my great grandfather served under Lord Nelson as a commander.
1 admire the bravery of...
Category: Correspondence
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When people think of the RNLI preventing tragedies, lifesaving rescues usually spring to mind. But there is a host of other ways to keep people safe at sea – and on the river …
In 2012, two men...
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Margate, Kent.—The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 10.20 A.M. on the 10th January, in answer to a message from North Foreland wireless station, received through the coastguard, that a trawler about...
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Mr. Samuel Edward Saunders, of Cowes, who died on 17th December, at the age of seventy-seven, was very closely associated with the building of the present motor life-boat fleet, first as head of his own firm, Messrs. S....
Category: Obituaries
To the Coxswain and Crew of the Aith Hope Life-boat Samyntas Stannak, I respectfully dedicate these simple verses for their noble work on the iight of the 31st October. It 98, in connection with the disabled steamer Manchester City, during a...
Category: Poetry