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William Osborne Ltd.
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Lifeboatmen and Fishermen By Colin Ashford
'The great majority of lifeboatmen are fishermen. They are men who daily sail the seas. They have acquired a skill in handling boats which touches the miraculous, and they know their own piece of coast, its sunken rocks, its shifting...
Category: Articles
Admiralty Register of Wrecks for the Year 1852
THE Blue Book under the above title which is annually presented to Parliament has just been published for the year 1852.
It comes at an appropriate time. Wintry gales, long nights, and dark fogs are the fit accompaniments...
Category: Articles
Pater
ARKLOW.—On the 30th March it was reported by the master of a fishing smack that a barque had grounded on the Arklow Bank. The Out-Pensioner Life-boat proceeded to her assistance, and found she was the barque Pater, of Sundswall, Sweden,...
All In a Good Cause By Pat Dewhurst
Pat Dewhurst, honorary secretary of Penwortham fund raising branch was asked to give this account of what lies behind the £4,OOU they bring in for the RNLI each year at a recent regional conference Readers who spend time on similar...
Category: Donations
Hitena, of St Johns
On the 28th De- cember the brigantine Hitena, of St. Johns, Newfoundland, was observed off Worthing with signals of distress in her rigging. A gale was blowing from the S.W., and there was a heavy sea on. The Jane life-boat was soon manned...
Notes and News
LIFE-BOAT DAY was held throughout the area of Greater London on 2nd May, and a gross sum of about £2,514 was raised. A number of separate Days were held in different parts of London in 1920 and 1921, but this is the first Greater London...
Category: Articles
Sailing Bye
Anchor dragged THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Tenby lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard at 0445 on Sunday September 25, 1983, that the yacht Sailing Bye had dragged her anchor and was aground on the north beach, Tenby. Maroons were...
The Storms of Winter. The Return of the Missing Crew
( With an Illustration.") " THERE'S two ends to every trouble, Mary; there's the end that goes downward and drags us to the earth, and there's the end that goes upwards and draws us to...
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Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1937
" Imagine that You have been Shipwrecked and Rescued by a Life-boat.
Describe Your Experiences." THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools has been held this year for...
Category: Articles